Acute myocardial infarction. Prognosis complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest
- 11 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 241 (19) , 2024-2027
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.241.19.2024
Abstract
A community-wide study was conducted in metropolitan Baltimore in which the prognosis of 330 patients hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by ventricular fibrillation or cardiac arrest (VFib/CA) was compared with that of 1071 patients hospitalized with acute MI not complicated by VFib/CA. The in-hospital case-fatality rate among patients with MI complicated by VFib/CA was significantly higher than that in patients without VFib/CA. For patients discharged alive from the hospital, no significant differences in long-term survival were found between patients with MI with or without VFib/CA. Apparently attempts at preventing subsequent mortality should be diligently pursued in patients with MI who are discharged alive from the hospital regardless of the occurrence of VFib/CA in the acute phase.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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