Key result
Integrated nursing protocols streamline triage, monitoring, and education for patients with atrial fibrillation.
Why the study?
Atrial fibrillation is highly prevalent and associated with serious complications, necessitating a comprehensive multidisciplinary and nursing-focused management approach.
Highlights the crucial role of nursing in the multidisciplinary management, rapid triage, and education of patients with atrial fibrillation based on international guidelines.
Supports multidisciplinary nursing protocols in AF care per guidelines; leaves open prospective validation of outcome impact.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia encountered in internal medicine and emergency care. Its high prevalence and the associated risk of haemodynamic collapse and systemic thromboembolism, particularly acute pulmonary oedema and ischaemic stroke, call for a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach, rapid clinical triage, and intensive initial management. Nurses play a key role throughout patient care, from identifying the arrhythmia on an electrocardiogram (ECG) and monitoring vital signs according to established protocols, to administering complex parenteral therapy, preventing complications, and providing structured patient education. This paper provides a detailed overview of current prehospital and in-hospital management protocols, independent nursing diagnoses, collaborative problems, and an integrated care model based on the latest international guidelines.
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Pavić et al. (2026) conducted a review in Atrial fibrillation. Nursing care and integrated management protocols was evaluated. Comprehensive multidisciplinary nursing care and integrated management protocols are essential for the rapid triage, monitoring, and education of patients with atrial fibrillation.
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