A mnemonic to remember the commonest causes of new onset atrial fibrillation is:
- PIRATES
Mnemonic
- P: pulmonary
- I: ischemic
- R: rheumatic
- A: atrial myxoma
- T: thyroid
- E: embolism
- S: sepsis
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