A A Novel Risk Score to Predict New Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Undergoing Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

CONCLUSION: The PAFAC score is easy to calculate and can be used upon ICU admission to reliably identify patients at high risk of developing AF after isolated CABG.
PMID: 30604674 [PubMed - in process]

Source: The Heart Surgery Forum - December 13, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Lin SZ, Crawford TC, Suarez-Pierre A, Magruder JT, Carter MV, Cameron DE, Whitman GJ, Lawton J, Baumgartner WA, Mandal K Tags: Heart Surg Forum Source Type: research