Table 1.

Overview of the incidence of new onset cardiac arrhythmias in septic ICU patients

Author	Study design	Location	Population	Cardiac arrhythmia types	Occurrence (%)	Mortality (%)
Bender et al [36], 1996	Retrospective, single center	GICU	mixed*	SVT	13.6	28.6
Braltwalte et al [35], 1998	Prospective, observational single center	Surgical ICU	mixed*	atrial arrhythmias	10.2	23.4
Reinelt et al [34], 2001	Prospective single center	Medical cardiological ICUs	mixed* postoperative		15.7-19.2	30.8
Seguin et al [42], 2004	Prospective observational	Surgical ICU single center	mixed*	Atrial fibrillation	5.3	37.5
Goodman et al [41], 2007	Prospective single center	GICU	mixed*	Atrial fibrillation, flutter	9	54
Arora et al [38], 2007	Prospective single center	GICU	mixed*	Atrial fibrillation	29.5
Salman et al [37], 2008	Retrospective single center	GICU	mixed	PAF	31
Christian et al [22], 2008	Retrospective single center	GICU	septic	Atrial fibrillation	5.8	68.8
Annane et al all	Prospective multicenter	GICUs	mixed*		14	29
[14], 2008	(Europe)
Meierhenrichet al [23], 2010	Prospective single center	Surgical ICU	Sepsis/septic shock	Atrial fibrillation	7.8	15\22
Walkey et al [24], 2011	Retrospective multicenter	Nonfederal acute care (California hospitals)	Sepsis/sepsis with MOF	Atrial fibrillation	5.9	56
Walkey et al [25], 2014	Retrospective multicenter	GICUs	sepsis	Atrial fibrillation	7	44
Seemann et al [47], 2015	Prospective single center	GICU	Sepsis/septic shock	Atrial fibrillation	42	42

^*Mixed (general) ICU population included septic patients.