Impact of fluid balance on incidence of atrial fibrillation after cardiothoracic surgery

✍ Scribed by James S. Kalus; Michael F. Caron; C. Michael White; Jeffrey F. Mather; Robert Gallagher; William E. Boden; Jeffrey Kluger

• Book ID: 113441511
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Volume: 94
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9149
• DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.08.017

✦ Synopsis

Excessive fluid administration after cardiothoracic surgery has been proposed as a cause of postoperative atrial fibrillation. In this study, we observed that fluid balance and volume administered on postoperative day 2 was greater in patients who developed postoperative AF than in those who did not. We also found that net fluid balance on postoperative day 2 was an independent predictor of postoperative AF among patients not receiving prophylactic therapy.