What about the use antiarrhythmic drugs to attempt to restore sinus rhythm in patients with AFib?  The Figure shows results of a survey of primary care physicians’ beliefs about the potential benefits of the rhythm control strategy for treating AFib^[58]: 

• 55% believed that rhythm control would help avoid initiating long-term anticoagulation therapy
  
• 64% believed that rhythm control would decrease mortality risk
  
• 73% thought that rhythm control would decrease the risk of stroke

– although there is no randomized clinical trial to support these beliefs.

  Rothman SA. Am J Med 2013; 126: 00-00.