ArticleHeart (British Cardiac Society)2000
Prognostic implications of ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction: new strategies required for further mortality reduction.
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- Burden of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with acute myocardial infarction and their impact on hospitalization outcomes: insights from China acute myocardial infarction (CAMI) registry.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Observational
- First Report of Survival in Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation After Dual-Axis Defibrillation and Esmolol Administration.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2016Article
- Torsade de pointes as a reperfusion arrhythmia following intravenous thrombolytic therapy.Journal of cardiovascular disease research · 2013Article
- Prognostic impact of early ventricular fibrillation in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary PCI.European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care · 2012Article
- Thirty-year trends (1975-2005) in the magnitude, patient characteristics, and hospital outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by ventricular fibrillation.The American journal of cardiology · 2008Article
- Prehospital cardiac arrest: a marker for higher mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction and moderately reduced left ventricular function: results from the MITRA plus registry.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2008Article
- Effect of diabetes on serum potassium concentrations in acute coronary syndromes.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2003Article
- Interaction between arrival time and thrombolytic treatment in determining early outcome of acute myocardial infarction.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2002Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the changing risk of ventricular fibrillation, the prognostic implications, and the potential long term prognostic benefit of earlier hospital admission, after acute myocardial infarction.
designProspective observational study.
settingA district general hospital in east London. PATIENTS: 1225 consecutive patients admitted to a coronary care unit with acute myocardial infarction.
main outcome measuresTime of onset of pain and ventricular fibrillation, and long term survival of patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction.
resultsThe rate of ventricular fibrillation in these hospital inpatients was high in the first hour from onset of pain (118 events/1000 persons/h; 95% confidence interval (CI) 50.7 to 231) and fell rapidly to an almost constant low level by six hours; 27.4% of patients with early ventricular fibrillation died in hospital, compared with 11.6% of those without (p < 0.0001), but mortality in patients who survived to hospital discharge was not altered by early ventricular fibrillation (five year survival: 75.0% (95% CI 60.0% to 84.8%) with ventricular fibrillation v 73.3% (95% CI 69.6% to 76.6%) without ventricular fibrillation).
conclusionsPatients successfully resuscitated from early ventricular fibrillation have the same prognosis as those without ventricular fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction. Faster access to facilities for resuscitation must be achieved if major improvements in the persistently high case fatality of patients after acute myocardial infarction are to be made.
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