Mean time (in minutes) to successful termination of atrial arrhythmia
| Arrhythmia | Ibutilide | Sotalol | p value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 mg | 2 mg | ||||||
| Atrial flutter (n = 27) | |||||||
| Mean (SD) | 23 (11) | 15 (8) | 19 (4) | 0.0833 | |||
| Median | 21 | 14 | 19 | ||||
| Atrial fibrillation (n = 64) | |||||||
| Mean (SD) | 17 (17)† | 12 (7)† | 27 (20) | 0.0049 | |||
| Median | 11 | 12 | 20 | ||||
| All (n = 91) | |||||||
| Mean (SD) | 19 (15) | 13 (7)4-150 † | 25 (17) | 0.0017 | |||
| Median | 13 | 12 | 20 | ||||
↵4-150 Significantly different from 1 mg ibutilide (p ⩽ 0.05);†significantly different from sotalol (p ⩽ 0.05);anova.