Arrhythmias & electrophysiology
Contemporary management of ventricular electrical storm in Europe: results of a European Heart Rhythm Association Survey
Study context
- Population
- European centres managing patients with ventricular electrical storm (ES), acute and post-acute phases
- Participants
- 102 centres
- Outcome
- Current management of ES in European centres
Methodological detailssurvey, 20-item online questionnaire, European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Research Network Centres
- Survey
- 20-item online questionnaire
- EHRA Research Network Centres
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Patients with ES treated annually per centre, median (IQR 5-15)
- 10
- Autonomic modulation available for acute ES treatment (% of centres)
- 29.3%
- Centres performing VT ablation
- over 80%
- VT ablation available 24/7 (% of hospitals)
- 16.5%
- Centres using only one AAD before a non-AAD strategy
- 4.4%
- Centres using two AADs
- 33.3%
- Centres using >two AADs
- 12.2%
- Centres deciding based on individual patient's characteristics
- about 50%
- Centres referring patients to psychological counselling after ES
- 46%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Contemporary management of ventricular electrical storm in Europe: results of a European Heart Rhythm Association Survey. Europace. Published 5 October 2022. doi:10.
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