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Correlation between QT dispersion and burn severity.

Masaru Suzuki1, Katsunori Aoki, Kazuhiko Sekine

  • 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan. suzuki@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp

Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries
|August 7, 2002
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QT dispersion, a measure of heart repolarization, increases with burn injury severity. This study found higher QT dispersion in burn patients, correlating with burn index, suggesting acute stress impacts ventricular repolarization.

Area of Science:

  • Cardiology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Trauma Medicine

Background:

  • QT dispersion quantifies spatial inhomogeneity of ventricular repolarization.
  • Burn injuries induce acute stress, potentially affecting cardiac repolarization.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between burn severity and QT dispersion.
  • To determine if QT dispersion increases with burn index (BI) and prognostic burn index (PBI).

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 13 burn patients' electrocardiograms within 4 hours of emergency department arrival.
  • Measurement of corrected QT (QTc) intervals and calculation of QTc dispersion (QTcd).
  • Correlation analysis between QTcd and burn severity metrics (BI, PBI).

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Main Results:

  • Nine out of 13 patients exhibited prolonged QTcd (>40 ms).
  • Significant positive correlations were found between QTcd and both BI (r=0.61) and PBI (r=0.62).

Conclusions:

  • QT dispersion is elevated in burn patients.
  • Findings suggest acute stress from burns contributes to spatial inhomogeneity of ventricular repolarization.