Affiliation:
1. Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
2. National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract
Introduction: There is paucity of data on the occurrence of cardiovascular events (CVEs) in critically ill
patients with sepsis. We aimed to describe the incidence, risk factors and impact on mortality of CVEs in
these patients.
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of critically ill patients admitted to the medical intensive
care unit (ICU) between July 2015 and October 2016. The primary outcome was intra-hospital CVEs,
while the secondary outcomes were in-hospital mortality, ICU and hospital length of stay.
Results: Patients with sepsis (n=662) had significantly more CVEs compared to those without (52.9%
versus 23.0%, P<0.001). Among sepsis patients, 350 (52.9%) had 1 or more CVEs: 59 (8.9%) acute
coronary syndrome; 198 (29.9%) type 2 myocardial infarction; 124 (18.7%) incident atrial fibrillation;
76 (11.5%) new or worsening heart failure; 32 (4.8%) cerebrovascular accident; and 33 (5.0%)
cardiovascular death. Factors associated with an increased risk of CVEs (adjusted relative risk [95%
confidence interval]) included age (1.013 [1.007–1.019]); ethnicity—Malay (1.214 [1.005–1.465]) and
Indian (1.240 [1.030–1.494]) when compared to Chinese; and comorbidity of ischaemic heart disease
(1.317 [1.137–1.527]). There were 278 patients (79.4%) who developed CVEs within the first week of
hospitalisation. Sepsis patients with CVEs had a longer median (interquartile range [IQR]) length of stay
in the ICU (6 [3–12] vs 4 [2–9] days, P<0.001), and hospital (21 [10–42] vs 15 [7–30] days, P<0.001)
compared to sepsis patients without CVEs. There was no difference in in-hospital mortality between the
2 groups (46.9% vs 45.8%, P=0.792).
Conclusion: CVEs complicate half of the critically ill patients with sepsis, with 79.4% of patients developing
CVEs within the first week of hospitalisation, resulting in longer ICU and hospital length of stay.
Keywords: Atrial fibrillation, cardiac failure, cerebrovascular accident, ICU, myocardial infarction, sepsis
Publisher
Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Cited by
5 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献