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Patients evaluated at 6-10 weeks follow-up experienced persistent pain in 62% of cases, with only 31% achieving complete recovery.
This editorial highlights the need to evaluate functional recovery and return to work following treatment for out-of-hospital paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.
reimbursable treatment in future managed health care plans.As a final note, the patient recovery rate at 6-10 weeks among these patients is interesting to address.The authors report that 62% of the patients experienced some persistent pain at follow-up evaluation.Only 31% of the patients had a complete recovery during that follow-up period.This study did not address the issue of what percentage of these patients who had previously been working returned .tofull activities.It also would be interesting to note the performance level of those who returned to work.As EPs, we do not always address the issue of return-to-..........
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Marianne Gausche (1996) conducted an editorial in Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia. Patients evaluated at 6-10 weeks follow-up experienced persistent pain in 62% of cases, with only 31% achieving complete recovery.
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