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In-hospital versus out-of-hospital presentation of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias predicts survival

Results from the AVID registry

Andrew E. Epstein, MD, FACC^a, Judy Powell, RN^*, Qing Yao, PhD^*, Celeste Ocampo, RN, Scott Lancaster, MS^a, Yves Rosenberg, MD, MPH, David S. Cannom, MD, FACC, John M. Herre, MD, FACC^||, H. Leon Greene, MD, FACC^* the AVID Investigators^**

^a Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
^* Department of Biostatistics, the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Department of Cardiology, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Los Angeles Cardiology Associates, Los Angeles, California, USA
^|| Cardiology Consultants, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Unadjusted survival of patients in the AVID Registry with in-hospital versus out-of-hospital presentations of AVID-eligible ventricular arrhythmias. Time zero is the date of the index arrhythmia.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Adjusted survival of patients in the AVID Registry with in-hospital versus out-of-hospital presentations of AVID-eligible ventricular arrhythmias. Time zero is the date of the index arrhythmia.