Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về y học đề tài: The limited utility of electrocardiography variables used to predict arrhythmia in psychotropic drug overdose. | Available online http content 7 5 R101 Research Open Access The limited utility of electrocardiography variables used to predict arrhythmia in psychotropic drug overdose Nicholas A Buckley1 Stephan Chevalier2 I Anne Leditschke3 Dianne L O Connell4 James Leitch5 and Susan M Pond6 1 Department of Clinical Pharmacology The Canberra Hospital Australia 2Staff Cardiologist Service de Cardiologie Clinique Saint-Pierre B-1340 Ottignies Belgium 3Staff Specialist Intensive Care Unit The Canberra Hospital Australia 4Senior Epidemiologist The Cancer Council NSW Australia 5Clinical Senior Lecturer University of Newcastle Australia 6Adjunct Professor Department of Physiology and Pharmacology University of Queensland Australia Correspondence Nicholas A Buckley Received 28 February 2003 Revisions requested 12 May 2003 Revisions received 6 June 2003 Accepted 11 June 2003 Published 18 August 2003 Critical Care 2003 7 R101-R107 DOI cc2345 This article is online at http content 7 5 R101 2003 Buckley et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd Print ISSN 1364-8535 Online ISSN 1466-609X . This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Objective The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between serious arrhythmias in patients with psychotropic drug overdose and electrocardiography ECG findings that have been suggested previously to predict this complication. Methods Thirty-nine patients with serious arrhythmias ventricular tachycardia supraventricular tachycardia or cardiac arrest after tricyclic antidepressant overdose or thioridazine overdose were compared with 117 controls with clinically significant overdose matched to each case for the drug ingested. These patients with psychotropic drug overdose had presented for treatment to the Department of Clinical .
