- 著者
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Nobunaga Okada
Tasuku Matsuyama
Sachiko Morita
Naoki Ehara
Nobuhiro Miyamae
Yohei Okada
Takaaki Jo
Yasuyuki Sumida
Makoto Watanabe
Masahiro Nozawa
Ayumu Tsuruoka
Yoshihiro Fujimoto
Yoshiki Okumura
Kunio Hamanaka
Tetsuhisa Kitamura
Kei Nishiyama
Bon Ohta
- 出版者
- The Japanese Circulation Society
- 雑誌
- Circulation Journal (ISSN:13469843)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.84, no.3, pp.445-455, 2020-02-25 (Released:2020-02-25)
- 参考文献数
- 21
- 被引用文献数
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3
Background: The Osborn wave (OW) is often observed in hypothermic patients; however, whether OW in hypothermic patients is related to the development of fatal ventricular arrhythmia, including ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT), remains undetermined. This study aimed to estimate the association between OW and the incidence of fatal ventricular arrhythmias.Methods and Results: This retrospective study used the Japanese Accidental Hypothermia Network registry database and included 572 hypothermic patients. Patients were divided into the OW group (those with OW) and non-OW group (those without OW). The relationship between the development of fatal arrhythmias and presence of OW was assessed using the chi-squared test. All patients who developed VF/VT (n=10) had OW on electrocardiogram upon hospital arrival. The presence of OW had a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 47.8%, positive predictive value of 4.0%, and negative predictive value of 100% for VF/VT development. The in-hospital mortality rate was 22.3% in the OW group and 21.2% in the non-OW group (P=0.781).Conclusions: OW was observed in all hypothermic patients with VF/VT. The occurrence of ventricular arrhythmias is highly unlikely in the absence of OW on the electrocardiogram. Although the presence of OW might be used to predict these fatal arrhythmias in hypothermic patients, there was no association between the presence of OW and in-hospital mortality.