Title Page
Contents
Abstract 8
I. Introduction 10
II. Objectives 11
III. Methods 12
1. Patients and data collection 12
2. Outcomes 13
3. Statistycal analysis 13
IV. Results 15
1. Patient demographics 15
2. Relationship between VT and mortality 15
3. Risk factors for VT in patients on CRRT 16
V. Discussion 17
VI. Conclusion 20
References 21
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of the patients 27
Table 2. Unadjusted hazard ratios of all-cause mortality 28
Table 3. Odds ratios of all-cause mortality in patients with ventricular tachycardia compared with those without ventricular tachycardia 29
Table 4. Risk factors for the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia in the multivariable regression model 30
Figure 1. Histogram of the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia (VT) after starting continuous renal replacement therapy. The line indicates the cumulative occurrence of all the VT events on the right y-axis 31
Figure 2. Kaplan-Meier survival curves (A) for patients with and without ventricular tachycardia (VT). (B) VT events are categorized into sustained and nonsustained cases 32
Figure 3. Change in blood pressure after the occurrence of ventricular tachycardia 33