Norris R M, Bensley K E, Caughey D E, Scott P J
Br Med J. 1968 Jul 20;3(5611):143-6. doi: 10.1136/bmj.3.5611.143.
All 757 patients with acute myocardial infarction admitted to the three public hospitals in Auckland during one year were studied. About 7% died from cardiac arrhythmia four days or more after the onset of infarction. These patients had severe infarcts with circulatory failure on or shortly after admission to hospital. Late death from arrhythmia in patients recovering from circulatory failure may in many cases be preventable with anti-arrhythmic drugs.
对奥克兰三家公立医院在一年期间收治的757例急性心肌梗死患者进行了研究。约7%的患者在梗死发作四天或更长时间后死于心律失常。这些患者入院时或入院后不久即出现严重梗死并伴有循环衰竭。对于从循环衰竭中恢复的患者,心律失常导致的晚期死亡在许多情况下可用抗心律失常药物预防。