Documentation of Cardiac Arrhythmias After Open Heart Surgery
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 200
- Primary Endpoint
- Arrhythmia
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study aims at recording cardiac arrhythmias in patients after open heart surgery. The arrhythmias will be monitored during the entire first postoperative period, till six weeks after surgery.
Detailed Description
Approximately 30-50% of patients after cardiac surgery develop cardiac arrhythmias, most often atrial, and most frequently atrial fibrillation (AF).
Various risk factors, inter alia, the type of surgery itself are risk factors. The major additional risk factors for postoperative atrial fibrillation are: age, valvular involvement, length of cardiopulmonary bypass and cross-clamp times.
Postoperative atrial fibrillation is associated with increased length of stay, higher morbidity and mortality including stroke.
Documentation of postopertive atrial fibrillation is well gathered during the postopertive length of stay, but scarce information exists regarding the development and occurence of atrial arrhythmias after the patient's discharge.
Additionally, the various management protocols which exists with regard to postoperative atrial fibrillation, rely on continuous treatment of the patients with amiodarone or various other anti-arrhythmic agents for the initial postoperative period, and the initial first month after discharge.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Observational Model
- Cohort
- Time Perspective
- Prospective
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •18 years or older.
- •Patients after open-heart surgery (any type of surgery).
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients with internal pacemaker.
- •patients with known basic arrhythmia (pre-surgery) or patients who are discharged with some arrhythmias.
- •Patients with low response which it is expected that there will not be able to use the monitoring device
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Arrhythmia
Time Frame: 6 weeks
Documention of arrhythmias in patients after open heart surgery during the six (6) weeks after release
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
Ziv Beckerman MD
cardiac surgeon
Rambam Health Care Campus