Do preventive interventions reduce the incidence of post-operative atrial fibrillation and its complications in patients after cardiac surgery?
Aggressive prevention strategies significantly reduce the incidence of post-operative atrial fibrillation, length of stay, and stroke following cardiac surgery.
All five interventions reduced the incidence of AF, though the effect of BBs is less than previously thought. The significant reductions in length of stay and stroke in meta-analysis suggest that there are worthwhile benefits from aggressive prevention. Larger studies to confirm these clinical benefits and evaluate their cost-effectiveness would be worthwhile.
Burgess et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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