Prevalence and Associated Factors of Cardiac Arrhythmia Among Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients at Eka kotebe COVID-19 Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021: Cross-sectional study

Abstract

According to World Health Organization (WHO) June 2 report there were total of172,173,283 cases and 3,695.990 deaths and, 154, 832,586 recovered with the highest prevalencein the United States America. Cardiovascular and arrhythmic events have been reported inhospitalized COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 has the potential to cause myocardial injury andnoted to have heart failure in a study of inpatients from previous studies. There are researcheslimitation regarding the prevalence and associated factors of the disease in general andparticularly among COVID-19 critically ill patients. Understanding the situation in Ethiopia would help to us to improve their status and outcome of clinical service.