Deshpande Saurabh, Swatari Hiroyuki, Chahal Anwar A, Padmanabhan Deepak
Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiac Sciences and Research Bangalore India.
Department of Perioperative and Critical Care Management, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.
J Arrhythm. 2024 Jan 3;40(1):200-201. doi: 10.1002/joa3.12983. eCollection 2024 Feb.
We had included only the patients with cardiac tamponade, excluded those coded for pericardial effusion. The feasibility of comparison of the databases of two regions needs to be evaluated. There are some inherent limitations for the studies carried out from the National In-patient Samples (NIS) database.