Response to letter to editor, re-predictors of morbidity and in-hospital mortality following procedure-related cardiac tamponade

Saurabh Deshpande; Hiroyuki Swatari; Anwar A Chahal; Deepak Padmanabhan

doi:10.1002/joa3.12983

Response to letter to editor, re-predictors of morbidity and in-hospital mortality following procedure-related cardiac tamponade

J Arrhythm. 2024 Jan 3;40(1):200-201. doi: 10.1002/joa3.12983. eCollection 2024 Feb.

Authors

Saurabh Deshpande¹, Hiroyuki Swatari^{2

3}, Anwar A Chahal^{3

4}, Deepak Padmanabhan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Electrophysiology Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiac Sciences and Research Bangalore India.
² Department of Perioperative and Critical Care Management, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota USA.
⁴ Cardiac Electrophysiology Section, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine WellSpan Health York Pennsylvania USA.

Abstract

We had included only the patients with cardiac tamponade, excluded those coded for pericardial effusion. The feasibility of comparison of the databases of two regions needs to be evaluated. There are some inherent limitations for the studies carried out from the National In-patient Samples (NIS) database.