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Intensive care use and mortality among patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of intensive care unit (ICU) admission on mortality among patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

1727 acute care hospitals in the United States.

Participants

Medicare beneficiaries (aged 65 years or older) admitted with STEMI to either an ICU or a non-ICU unit (general/telemetry ward or intermediate care) between January 2014 and October 2015.

Main outcome measure

30 day mortality. An instrumental variable analysis was done to account for confounding, using as an instrument the additional distance that a patient with STEMI would need to travel beyond the closest hospital to arrive at a hospital in the top quarter of ICU admission rates for STEMI.

Results

The analysis included 109 375 patients admitted to hospital with STEMI. Hospitals in the top quarter of ICU admission rates admitted 85% or more of STEMI patients to an ICU. Among patients who received ICU care dependent on their proximity to a hospital in the top quarter of ICU admission rates, ICU admission was associated with lower 30 day mortality than non-ICU admission (absolute decrease 6.1 (95% confidence interval -11.9 to -0.3) percentage points). In a separate analysis among patients with non-STEMI, a group for whom evidence suggests that routine ICU care does not improve outcomes, ICU admission was not associated with differences in mortality (absolute increase 1.3 (-0.9 to 3.4) percentage points).

Conclusions

ICU care for STEMI is associated with improved mortality among patients who could be treated in an ICU or non-ICU unit. An urgent need exists to identify which patients with STEMI benefit from ICU admission and what about ICU care is beneficial.

SUBMITTER: Valley TS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547840 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intensive care use and mortality among patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction: retrospective cohort study.

Valley Thomas S TS Iwashyna Theodore J TJ Cooke Colin R CR Sinha Shashank S SS Ryan Andrew M AM Yeh Robert W RW Nallamothu Brahmajee K BK

BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 20190604

<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the effect of intensive care unit (ICU) admission on mortality among patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).<h4>Design</h4>Retrospective cohort study.<h4>Setting</h4>1727 acute care hospitals in the United States.<h4>Participants</h4>Medicare beneficiaries (aged 65 years or older) admitted with STEMI to either an ICU or a non-ICU unit (general/telemetry ward or intermediate care) between January 2014 and October 2015.<h4>Main outcome measure</h4>30 ...[more]

PMID: 31164326

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