Failure in short-term prediction of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation from continuous electrocardiogram in intensive care unit patients

Journal of Electrocardiology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 400-407

  Sachdev, Molly ^a   Fetics, Barry J ^a   Lai, Shenghan ^a   Dalal, Darshan ^a   Insel, Jerald ^b   Berger, Ronald D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia prediction; Heart rate variability; QT variability; Ventricular fibrillation; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT DISPERSION; QT INTERVAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 79952115868     PISSN: 00220736     EISSN: 15328430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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