• Clin Med (Lond) · Aug 2018

    Risk of thromboembolism in patients developing critical illness-associated atrial fibrillation.

    • Benjamin Clayton, Susan Ball, James Read, and Sam Waddy.
    • Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK benjamin.clayton@nhs.net.
    • Clin Med (Lond). 2018 Aug 1; 18 (4): 282287282-287.

    AbstractAlthough common, the long-term significance of -developing atrial fibrillation (AF) during a period of critical illness is unclear. We undertook a retrospective cohort analysis to -assess the rate of thromboembolism (TE) in patients -developing atrial fibrillation de novo during admission to our intensive care unit. In total, 1,955 patients were followed up (-maximum follow-up 1,276 days) for the occurrence of TE, of which 220 (11.3%) had developed AF or atrial flutter during their critical care admission. There were 11 TE events among the patients with new AF (0.053 events per patient-year), compared with 18 in the non-AF group (0.0059 events per patient-year). The unadjusted hazard ratio for TE in patients developing new AF compared with those not developing AF was 8.09 (95% CI 3.08-17.19, p<0.001). In patients admitted to critical care, the development of AF appears to be associated with a significantly increased risk of subsequent thromboembolism.© Royal College of Physicians 2018. All rights reserved.

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