El Hospital Universitario de La Candelaria participates in an international detection study and management of arrhythmias in emergency services hospital.
Spain, June of 2011- the HUNSC is the only Canary representative who works in this coordinated initiative in Spain by the Spanish society of Medicine of urgencies and emergencies (SEMES), these days held its national meeting in Murcia and presented four communications containing the conclusions of this project.
the results of this study, called R-AF-Spain, learned that almost 60% of patients in the emergency services of 52 hospitals with atrial fibrillation had a high risk for a stroke brain.
the Hospital Universitario Ntra. Ms. of Candelaria (HUNSC) attached to the Ministry of health of the Canary, participates in a study of international scope to describe the pattern of management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in the acute phase in the population who comes to the services of emergency hospital in Spain (HUS). Atrial fibrillation is a type of arrhythmia in clinical practice, associated with cardiovascular risk factors and that can lead to a third of hospitalizations related to disorders of heart rhythm.
Spain, collaborating with other countries such as Germany, Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and Sweden, has collected information through the sending of data offered by 52 hospitals throughout the country, being the University Hospital of Ntra. Ms. de Candelaria the only Canary Islands representative in this study coordinated by the Group of arrhythmias of the Spanish society of Medicine of urgencies and emergencies (SEMES).
the overall result includes the study of 592 patients with an average age of 66 years who presented symptoms such as tachycardia and palpitations, chest pain, disneas and dizziness in emergency services. Of the total of people studied, 53% are men and much of the analyzed cases were associated with the presence of cardiovascular risk factors among hypertension, hyperlipidaemia (high amount of fat in the blood) and diabetes mellitus. With all these factors, it was concluded that almost 60% of patients who attended the services of emergency with atrial fibrillation, presented a high risk of an accident stroke (ictus).
five weeks for the collection of data.
to Dr. Ignacio Ayala, doctor of the Hospital Universitario Ntra emergency service. Ms. de Candelaria and coordinator of the study in the HUNSC, it’s observational and multi-site work that in 2010, for five weeks, were recruited to 100% of the patients who came to our emergency service with atrial fibrillation of recent onset or properly anticoagulados, i.e., those that are likely to restore sinus rhythm (normal). During the period of data collection, there were 21 people with these characteristics, of which 11 were discharged after restoring sinus rhythm and referred to the cardiology service arrhythmias unit of the HUNSC ”.
this study allowed to further in these patients clinical profile so that, when making a decision about his disease, can optimize the results of the treatment that should apply during the onset of acute episodes which is intended to restore and stabilize the normal rhythm of the heart, pharmacological treatment or through electrical cardioversion, in order to prevent the origin Embolic stroke, as well as to prevent the deterioration of the contractile function of the heart ”, concludes this specialist.
Dr. Ignacio Ayala, also attended the physicians Germán Pérez, Dácil P. Leon, Maria l. Perez and Pilar González, all of them belonging to the service of Hospital Universitario Ntra emergency. Ms. of Candelaria.
XXIII Congress national of the Spanish society medicine of urgencies and emergencies (SEMES).
from 15 to 17 June, Murcia made Edition XXIII of its national meeting, where practitioners of this medical discipline analyzed the current situation of the services provided by these services very popular and used by the population.
it is precisely in this Congress which proceeded to report on the experience of the RHYTHM-AF-Spain study, selecting a communication owned by the HUNSC as one of the top 20 articles of the almost 700 communications received by the Scientific Committee of the SEMES.
