Arrhythmias in Neonates and Infants at a Tertiary Care Center
Why the study?
Limited data are available concerning arrhythmias in neonates and infants from the Middle East.
Population
90 neonates and infants with arrhythmias requiring medical intervention out of 16,346 admitted to AUBMC
Comparison
Arrhythmias related to cardiac surgery vs arrhythmias not related to cardiac surgery
Design
Retrospective cohort study
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Discussion
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Implication
Should not yet change practice; leaves open whether surgery independently drives infant arrhythmia type after confounder adjustment.
Structured PICO
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Population
90 neonates and infants who developed arrhythmias requiring medical intervention out of 16,346 subjects admitted to the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) between 2013 and 2017.
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Comparator
Arrhythmias related to cardiac surgery vs. arrhythmias not related to cardiac surgery
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Outcome
Type of arrhythmia, treatment modality used and its success, need for additional modes of treatment, relationship to congenital heart diseases, and cardiac surgeries performed
In a Lebanese tertiary center, SVT was the most common arrhythmia in neonates and infants, and differences between surgery-related and non-surgery-related arrhythmias were not significant after adjusting for confounders.
Cite This Study
Refaat et al. (2021) studied this question.