Excess short-term mortality in noncritical patients with atrial fibrillation presenting to the emergency department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mortality data of non-critically ill patients presenting with symptomatic atrial fibrillation to an emergency department are scarce. We aimed to analyze the short-term mortality of these patients compared with that of the general Austrian population.

Design/methods

This study analyzed a consecutive series of non-critically ill adults presenting to the emergency department at the Medical University of Vienna between 2012 and 2016 with complaints related to atrial fibrillation. The study outcome was mortality during the observation period. Age-specific and sex-specific mortality rates per 100 person-years were calculated and compared with the mortality rates of the Austrian population during the same period.

Results

In total, 1754 patients with atrial fibrill

SUBMITTER: Niederdockl J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8373724 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature