Objective: To analyse the influence on the prognosis of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI): prognostic index score, Killip class, AMI site, thrombolysis and other variables that might improve prognostic capacity and functioning of the APACHE-II index.
Design: Cohort study using prospectively gathered ARIAM project data.
Setting: ICUs from 129 Spanish hospitals.