Time-dependent risk of and predictors for cardiac arrest recurrence in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with chronic coronary artery disease.
Why the study?
What are the time-dependent predictors of cardiac arrest recurrence in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with chronic coronary artery disease?
Population
101 consecutive patients with chronic coronary artery disease who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 27 months
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Implication
May refine post-arrest surveillance timing; hypothesis-generating for targeted interventions, requiring prospective validation.
Structured PICO
What are the time-dependent predictors of cardiac arrest recurrence in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with chronic coronary artery disease?
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Population
101 consecutive patients with chronic coronary artery disease who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the absence of acute myocardial infarction
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Intervention
Electrophysiologic evaluation and treatment (antiarrhythmic drugs or surgery) based on inducibility of ventricular tachyarrhythmias
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Outcome
Cardiac arrest recurrencehard clinical
In survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with chronic coronary artery disease, poor ejection fraction predicts early recurrence while persistent inducibility of ventricular tachyarrhythmias predicts late recurrence.
Cite This Study
Furukawa et al. (1989) studied this question.