Response to Letter to Editor

Abstract

The high cardioversion success rates for atrial fibrillation reported using the Ottawa-atrial fibrillation (AF) cardioversion protocol 1 coupled with our study's findings 2 send an important message to physicians: that manual pressure augmentation (MPA) and the use of 360 J defibrillators are alternative techniques rather than accepting "permanent AF" after failed cardioversion using 200 J Aleksandr Voskoboinik