Predictors of In-Hospital Ventricular Fibrillation or Torsades De Pointes in Patients With Acute Symptomatic Bradycardia From: Journal of Electrocardiology | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Almendral, Jesus; Et al; Puchol, Alberto; Torrecilla, Esteban G; Diaz-Castro, Oscar | Copyright Churchill Livingstone Inc., Medical Publishers Jan 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Abstract: Severe bradyarrythmias remain as an important cause for hospital urgent admission and these patients can suffer potentially lethal complications (such as ventricular fibrillation [VF] and Torsades de Pointes [TdP]) between hospital admission and final therapy. Incidence and predictors of these tachyarrhythmias have not been well established. We retrospectively studied all consecutive patients (N = 243, age 75 ± f O years; 47% men) admitted to the emergency department of a general h...

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