FAYETTEVILLE – August 3, 2020 - Cape Fear Valley Medical Center has received the Get With The Guidelines® – AFIB Gold Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.
The award is for implementing specific quality improvement measures for the management of patients with atrial fibrillation, or AFIB. The measures include providing appropriate medications and aggressive risk reduction therapies to prevent stroke, stabilize heart rate and rhythm, and to treat additional heart disease.
Before discharge, patients should also receive education and counseling on managing their condition and plans for follow-up care.
More than 2.7 million adults suffer from atrial fibrillation, according to the American Heart Association. The condition accounts for one-third of cardiac rhythm disturbance and is associated with a five-fold increased risk of stroke. Proper AFIB treatment can reduce those risks.