Results, barriers and enablers in atrial fibrillation case finding: barriers in opportunistic atrial fibrillation case finding-a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is often asymptomatic, and screening is not routinely undertaken. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a population-based case finding program and to identify the enablers of and/or barriers to its implementation. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study of a health care case finding program for AF from 1 January 2016, to 31 December 2017, that included 48 336 people ≥60 years of age in the region of Terresde l'Ebre (Catalonia, Spain). We analysed the effect on the prevalence of AF and, stratified by age, on the incidence of new diagnoses of AF. We assessed the sociodemographic and clinical variables related to the realization of a case finding. RESULTS: A total of 32 090 (62.4%) people were screened for AF. We observed a significant increase in the AF prevalence after 2 years of program intervention (5.9-7.7%; P < 0.001). The detection of new AF cases was significantly higher in the case finding group across the whole of the age range, and 765 (2.6%) new AF cases were diagnosed using case finding. The factors that were significantly associated with an underuse of case finding were: age <70 years, urban residence, institutionalized status, Pfeiffer score ≥2, Charlson score >3 and number of visits <7/year. CONCLUSIONS: A health care program of case finding is feasible and is associated with a significant increase in the prevalence and incidence of AF. The results depend on factors such as the ease of access to health care, age, place of residence and comorbidities.

Pulpitis palmar de las piscinas: un diagnóstico que hay que considerar / Pool palms: a diagnosis to consider

La dermatitis palmar juvenil de las piscinas es una dermatosis por fricción, típica de la infancia, causada por el roce continuo de la piel húmeda de las palmas de las manos, y ocasionalmente de las plantas de los pies, con las superficies rugosas de las piscinas. Es posible que dicha dermatosis sea relativamente frecuente, aunque existen muy pocos casos descritos en la literatura científi­ca, por lo que, a menudo, es desconocida y, seguramente, está infradiagnosticada

Juvenile palmar dermatitis acquired at swimming pools is a friction dermatosis, typical of childhood, caused by the continuous rubbing of the wet skin of the palms of the hands, and occasionally of the soles of the feet, with the rough surfaces of the pools. It is possible that this dermatosis is relatively frequent but, nevertheless, there are very few cases described in the literature so that it is often unknown and probably underdiagnosed. Therefore, two cases of said entity that affect the same family are reported

Patrón de brugada tipo 1 y terapia con litio / Brugada type 1 pattern and lithium therapy

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Taquicardia ventricular com QRS relativamente estrecho / Relatively narrow QRS ventricular tachycardia

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