Older Age Is the Strongest Predictor of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

• Main Authors: Amar, D., Zhang, H., Leung, Denis H. Y., Roistacher, N., Kadish, A
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• 主題: Econometrics; Medicine and Health Sciences
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/14

Background: Identification of patients vulnerable for atrial fibrillation (AF) after major thoracic surgery will allow targeting those most likely to benefit from prophylactic therapy. The goal of the current study was to evaluate the accuracy of easily available clinical characteristics for the pre...