In-hospital major arrhythmias, arrhythmic death and resuscitation after successful primary percutaneous intervention for acute transmural infarction: a retrospective single-centre cohort study

Table 4 In-hospital arrhythmias: relationship to cardiogenic shock and relative mortality

Malignant arrhythmia	% of total^a	Cardiogenic shock^b	Mortality^b
Tachyarrhythmia
sustained VT, %	1.3%	15.4%	15.4%
VF, %	1.5%	53.3%	93.3%
Bradyarrhythmia
CHB, %	0.8%	37.5%	62.5%
Bradyarrhythmia absoluta, %	0.2%	0%	0%
Sinus arrest,	0.1%	0%	0%
SCD, %	0.3%	0%	100%
PEA, %	2.6%	86.7%	100%
Asystole, %	0.8%	53.8%	84.6%

VT ventricular tachycardia, VF ventricular fibrillation, CHB complete heart block, SCD sudden cardiac death, PEA pulseless electrical activity
^a with respect to entire study population
^b with respect to cases of VT, VF, CHB, Bradyarrhythmia absoluta, sinus arrest, SCD, PEA, Asystole

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