| Study characteristics |
| Methods |
Randomized, controlled |
| Participants |
Elective on‐pump cardiac surgery (79.7% CABG only, 2% mitral commissurotomy, 2% mitral valveplasty; 2% CABG + mitral valveplasty, 2% CABG + mitral valve replacement, 4.1% aortic valve replacement, 8.2% mitral valve replacement) |
| Interventions |
Amiodarone vs. Control |
| Outcomes |
AF |
| Follow‐Up |
7 days or hospital discharge |
| Concurrent Antiarrhythmic Medications |
Not reported |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient information |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient information |
| Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient information |
| Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
Insufficient information |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Low risk |
No missing outcome data |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
All outcomes reported |
| Intention‐to‐treat analysis |
Unclear risk |
Not reported |
