That’s NOT how my cardiologist explained it to me. . .and why I was so relieved to have converted chemically.
1 pill a day ever since: Sotatol AF . .
“That’s NOT how my cardiologist explained it to me.”
Then your cardiologist is a fool, liar, or extremely poor communicator.
I’ve been electrocardioconverted three times and all three times my wife was present and watched the EKG the whole time I was under the Propofol. No flat-lining, period. Just the reappearance of the blessed p-waves that signal proper beating of the atria.
In our local hospital, electrocardioconversion is now so common that they no longer necessarily have an attending anesthesiologist administer the Propofol,or even necessarily have an attending cardiologist present, though when I had the procedures done they had both an attending anesthesiologist and an attending cardiologist.