Pulmonology
Atrial fibrillation in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation: a nationwide inpatient report
Zhen Lin, Hedong Han, Wei Guo, Xin Wei, Zhijian Guo, Shujie Zhai, Shuai Li, Yiming Ruan, Fangyuan Hu, Dongdong Li, Jia He
Korean J Intern Med. 2021;36(6):1389-1401. Published online July 12, 2021
Background/Aims: To evaluate temporal trends of atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence in critically ill patients who received prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) in the United States.
Methods: We used the 2008 to 2014 National Inpatient Sample to compute the weighted prevalence of AF among hospital..
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