Morphine Use in the ED and Outcomes of Patients With Acute Heart Failure: A Propensity Score-Matching Analysis Based on the EAHFE Registry

• Published in: Chest Vol. 152; no. 4; p. 821
• Main Authors: Miró, Òscar, Gil, Víctor, Martín-Sánchez, Francisco J, Herrero-Puente, Pablo, Jacob, Javier, Mebazaa, Alexandre, Harjola, Veli-Pekka, Ríos, José, Hollander, Judd E, Peacock, W Frank, Llorens, Pere
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Acute Disease; Aged, 80 and over; Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data; Female; Heart Failure - drug therapy; Heart Failure - mortality; Heart Failure - physiopathology; Hemodynamics - drug effects; Hospital Mortality - trends; Humans; Injections, Intravenous; Length of Stay - trends; Male; Morphine - administration & dosage; Morphine - adverse effects; Narcotics - administration & dosage; Narcotics - adverse effects; Prognosis; Propensity Score; Registries; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Spain - epidemiology; Survival Rate - trends; acute heart failure; opiates; outcome; ED; morphine

The objective was to determine the relationship between short-term mortality and intravenous morphine use in ED patients who received a diagnosis of acute heart failure (AHF). Consecutive patients with AHF presenting to 34 Spanish EDs from 2011 to 2014 were eligible for inclusion. The subjects were...