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Wetterslev, Mik MD, PhD1; Hylander Møller, Morten MD, PhD1; Granholm, Anders MD1; Hassager, Christian MD, MedScD2; Haase, Nicolai MD, PhD1; Lange, Theis MSc, PhD3; Myatra, Sheila N. MD4; Hästbacka, Johanna MD, PhD5; Arabi, Yaseen M. MD6; Shen, Jiawei MD7; Cronhjort, Maria MD, PhD8; Lindqvist, Elin MD8; Aneman, Anders MD, PhD9,10; Young, Paul J. MD, PhD11,12; Szczeklik, Wojciech MD, PhD13; Siegemund, Martin MD14; Koster, Thijs MD15; Aslam, Tayyba Naz MD16; Bestle, Morten H. MD, PhD17,18; Girkov, Mia S. MD19; Kalvit, Kushal MD4; Mohanty, Rakesh MD4; Mascarenhas, Joanne MD20; Pattnaik, Manoranjan MD21; Vergis, Sara MD22; Haranath, Sai Praveen MD23; Shah, Mehul MD24; Joshi, Ziyokov MD25; Wilkman, Erika MD, PhD5; Reinikainen, Matti MD, PhD26; Lehto, Pasi MD27; Jalkanen, Ville MD, PhD28; Pulkkinen, Anni MD29; An, Youzhong MD7; Wang, Guoxing MD30; Huang, Lei MD31; Huang, Bin MD32; Liu, Wei MD33; Gao, Hengbo MD34; Dou, Lin MD35; Li, Shuangling MD36; Yang, Wanchun MD37; Tegnell, Emily MD38; Knight, Agnes MD39; Czuczwar, Miroslaw MD, PhD40; Czarnik, Tomasz MD, PhD41; Perner, Anders MD, PhD1;  the AFIB-ICU Collaborators. Atrial Fibrillation (AFIB) in the ICU: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes: The International AFIB-ICU Cohort Study*. Critical Care Medicine 51(9):p 1124-1137, September 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005883

Atrial fibrillation (AFIB) in the ICU : incidence, risk factors, and outcomes : the international AFIB-ICU cohort study

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Author: Wetterslev, Mik1; Hylander Møller, Morten1; Granholm, Anders1;
Organizations: 1Department of Intensive Care, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
3Department of Public Health, Section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
4Department of Anaesthesiology Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India
5Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
6Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
7Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China
8Department of Clinical Science and Education, Section of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
9Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
10South Western Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Warwick Farm, NSW, Australia
11Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand
12Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
13Center for Intensive Care and Perioperative Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
14Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine and Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel and University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
15Department of Critical Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
16Department of Anaesthesiology, Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
17Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Copenhagen University Hospital – North Zealand, Copenhagen, Denmark
18Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
19Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
20Department of Medicine and Critical Care, Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai, India
21Department of Pulmonary Medicine, SCB Medical College & Hospital, Cuttack, India
22Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, MOSC Medical College, Kolenchery, India
23Department of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
24Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India
25Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Tagore Hospital, Jalandhar, India
26Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Kuopio University Hospital, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
27Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
28Department of Intensive Care, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
29Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Central Finland Central Hospital, Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland
30Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
31Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
32Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China
33Department of Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Luhe Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
34Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Second Hospital, Hebei Medical University, Hebei, China
35Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, China
36Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
37Emergency Intensive Care Unit, Xinjiang Production and Construction Crops 13 div Red Star Hospital
38Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
39Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hudiksvall Hospital, Hudiksvall, Sweden
40Second Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
41Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Opole, Opole, Poland
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: embargoed
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe20230901115135
Language: English
Published: Wolters Kluwer, 2023
Publish Date: 2024-04-20
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Abstract

Objectives: To assess the incidence, risk factors, and outcomes of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the ICU and to describe current practice in the management of AF.

Design: Multicenter, prospective, inception cohort study.

Setting: Forty-four ICUs in 12 countries in four geographical regions.

Subjects: Adult, acutely admitted ICU patients without a history of persistent/permanent AF or recent cardiac surgery were enrolled; inception periods were from October 2020 to June 2021.

Intervention: None.

Measurements and main results: We included 1,423 ICU patients and analyzed 1,415 (99.4%), among whom 221 patients had 539 episodes of AF. Most (59%) episodes were diagnosed with continuous electrocardiogram monitoring. The incidence of AF was 15.6% (95% CI, 13.8–17.6), of which newly developed AF was 13.3% (11.5–15.1). A history of arterial hypertension, paroxysmal AF, sepsis, or high disease severity at ICU admission was associated with AF. Used interventions to manage AF were fluid bolus 19% (95% CI 16–23), magnesium 16% (13–20), potassium 15% (12–19), amiodarone 51% (47–55), beta-1 selective blockers 34% (30–38), calcium channel blockers 4% (2–6), digoxin 16% (12–19), and direct current cardioversion in 4% (2–6). Patients with AF had more ischemic, thromboembolic (13.6% vs 7.9%), and severe bleeding events (5.9% vs 2.1%), and higher mortality (41.2% vs 25.2%) than those without AF. The adjusted cause-specific hazard ratio for 90-day mortality by AF was 1.38 (95% CI, 0.95–1.99).

Conclusions: In ICU patients, AF occurred in one of six and was associated with different conditions. AF was associated with worse outcomes while not statistically significantly associated with 90-day mortality in the adjusted analyses. We observed variations in the diagnostic and management strategies for AF.

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Series: Critical care medicine
ISSN: 0090-3493
ISSN-E: 1530-0293
ISSN-L: 0090-3493
Volume: 51
Issue: 9
Pages: 1124 - 1137
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005883
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000005883
Type of Publication: A1 Journal article – refereed
Field of Science: 3126 Surgery, anesthesiology, intensive care, radiology
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Copyright information: © 2023 by the Society of Critical Care Medicine and Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Wetterslev, Mik MD, PhD1; Hylander Møller, Morten MD, PhD1; Granholm, Anders MD1; Hassager, Christian MD, MedScD2; Haase, Nicolai MD, PhD1; Lange, Theis MSc, PhD3; Myatra, Sheila N. MD4; Hästbacka, Johanna MD, PhD5; Arabi, Yaseen M. MD6; Shen, Jiawei MD7; Cronhjort, Maria MD, PhD8; Lindqvist, Elin MD8; Aneman, Anders MD, PhD9,10; Young, Paul J. MD, PhD11,12; Szczeklik, Wojciech MD, PhD13; Siegemund, Martin MD14; Koster, Thijs MD15; Aslam, Tayyba Naz MD16; Bestle, Morten H. MD, PhD17,18; Girkov, Mia S. MD19; Kalvit, Kushal MD4; Mohanty, Rakesh MD4; Mascarenhas, Joanne MD20; Pattnaik, Manoranjan MD21; Vergis, Sara MD22; Haranath, Sai Praveen MD23; Shah, Mehul MD24; Joshi, Ziyokov MD25; Wilkman, Erika MD, PhD5; Reinikainen, Matti MD, PhD26; Lehto, Pasi MD27; Jalkanen, Ville MD, PhD28; Pulkkinen, Anni MD29; An, Youzhong MD7; Wang, Guoxing MD30; Huang, Lei MD31; Huang, Bin MD32; Liu, Wei MD33; Gao, Hengbo MD34; Dou, Lin MD35; Li, Shuangling MD36; Yang, Wanchun MD37; Tegnell, Emily MD38; Knight, Agnes MD39; Czuczwar, Miroslaw MD, PhD40; Czarnik, Tomasz MD, PhD41; Perner, Anders MD, PhD1;  the AFIB-ICU Collaborators. Atrial Fibrillation (AFIB) in the ICU: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcomes: The International AFIB-ICU Cohort Study*. Critical Care Medicine 51(9):p 1124-1137, September 2023. | DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005883.