Should we administrate anticoagulants to critically ill patients with new onset supraventricular arrhythmias?

Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 217-219

  Labbé, Vincent ^a   Ederhy, Stephane ^b   Fartoukh, Muriel ^a   Cohen, Ariel ^b  

^a HÔPITAL TENON   (France)

^b ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Atrial fibrillation; Intensive care unit; Supraventricular arrhythmias; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOLOGIST; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHADS2 SCORE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR DISEASE; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928582057     PISSN: 18752136     EISSN: 18752128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acvd.2015.01.001     Document Type: Article

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