Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of new-onset atrial fibrillation in critically ill: a systematic review

Table 1 Overall characteristics of included studies

Author, year [ref]	Study design	No. of patients	Setting (patients)	Outcome
Bender JS, 1996 [49]	Prospective observational	206	Surgical ICU	Etiology
Seguin P, 2004 [50]	Prospective observational	453	Surgical ICU	Etiology/outcome
Seguin P, 2006 [51]	Prospective observational	293	Surgical ICU (trauma)	Etiology/outcome treatment
Arora S, 2007 [52]	Prospective observational	61	Mixed ICU	Etiology/outcome
Christian SA, 2008 [26]	Retrospective observational	272	Mixed ICU (sepsis)	Etiology/outcome
Meierhenrich R, 2010 [53]	Prospective observational	629 (50 septic shock)	Surgical ICU	Etiology/outcome treatment
Walkey AJ, 2011 [54]	Retrospective population-based cohort	49,082	Acute care hospitals (severe sepsis)	Etiology/outcome
Kanji S, 2012 [55]	Retrospective observational	3,081	Three mixed ICUs	Etiology treatment
Tongyaoo S, 2013 [56]	Prospective observational	247	Medical ICU	Etiology/outcome
Makrygiannis SS, 2014 [57]	Prospective observational	133	Mixed ICU	Etiology
Balser JR, 1998 [60]	Randomized controlled	64^a	Surgical ICU	Treatment
Sleeswijk ME, 2008 [61]	Prospective observational	29	Mixed ICU	Treatment

^aNumber of patients with supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (not focusing on AFib and AFl).

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