Impact of prolonged elevated heart rate on incidence of major cardiac events in critically ill patients with a high risk of cardiac complications

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 81-88

  Sander, Olaf ^a,b   Welters, Ingeborg D ^a,c   Foëx, Pierre ^a   Sear, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Heart rate; Intensive care; Myocardial infarction; Risk assessment; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; COUMARIN; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPEXAMINE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE; NORADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY STENOSIS; CRITICAL CARE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 12244250772     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000150028.64264.14     Document Type: Article

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