Atrial fibrillation in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation: a nationwide inpatient report.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

To evaluate temporal trends of atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) in the United States.

Methods

We used the 2008 to 2014 National Inpatient Sample to compute the weighted prevalence of AF among hospitalized adult patients on prolonged MV. We used multivariable-adjusted models to evaluate the association of AF with clinical factors, in-hospital mortality, hospitalization cost, and length of stay (LOS).

Results

We identified 2,578,165 patients who received prolonged MV (21.27% of AF patients). The prevalence of AF increased from 14.63% in 2008 to 24.43% in 2014 (p for trend < 0.0001). Amongst different phenotypes of critically ill patients, the prevalence of AF increased in pa

SUBMITTER: Lin Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8588991 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature