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. 2008 Jul 18;12(4):R92. doi: 10.1186/cc6963

Table 1.

Demographic data, admission diagnosis, severity of illness, and morbidity of all patients admitted to the intensive care unit from 1999 to 2001 with cardiac arrest (n = 354)

Cardiac arrest (n = 354) Hospital non-survivors (n = 204) Completed questionnaire (n = 81) GCS score below 6 points (n = 7)
Age in years, mean ± SD 66 ± 13 68 ± 12 61 ± 13 61 ± 12
Median (25th/75th percentile) 68 (60/75) 70 (62/77) 61 (53/72) 64 (50/68)
Gender male/female, number (percentage) 252/102 (71/29) 148/56 (73/27) 57/24 (70/30) 6/1 (86/14)
ICU stay in days, mean ± SD (minimum-maximum) 9 ± 16 (1–113) 8 ± 14 (1–98) 7 ± 11 (1–78) 17 ± 23 (2–67)
Median (25th/75th percentile) 3 (1/9) 4 (1/9) 3 (2/7) 6 (2/18)
Hospital stay in days, mean ± SD (minimum-maximum) 25 ± 28 (1–176) 4 ± 18 (1–150)a 19 ± 18 (1–103) 35 ± 30 (2–101)
Median (25th/75th percentile) 15 (5/33) NA 14 (10/22) 26 (15/38)
SAPS II, mean ± SD 47 ± 23 58 ± 19a 38 ± 20 47 ± 21
Median (25th/75th percentile) 45 (31/63) 58 (44/71)a 33 (23/53) 53 (24/66)
SAPS II PRM as a percentage, mean ± SD 42 ± 33 58 ± 30a 42 ± 33 45 ± 36
Median (25th/75th percentile) 35 (12/74) 64 (33/85)a 14 (5/52) 53 (6/78)
Simplified TISS-28 day 1, mean ± SD 34 ± 11 36 ± 10 31 ± 8 37 ± 3
Median (25th/75th percentile) 34 (28/40) 36 (28/43) 32 (26/37) 37 (34/40)
TMS, mean ± SD 9.6 ± 5.2 11.8 ± 4.5a 6.3 ± 5.0 7.7 ± 5.3
Median (25th/75th percentile) 11 (5/13) 13 (10/15)a 5 (2/11) 9 (1/10)

Hospital non-survivors were more severely ill (SAPS II; P < 0.05) and exhibited significantly more organ dysfunctions (TMS; P < 0.05) compared with the patients completing the follow-up of 5 years. Age is given as of the day of ICU admission. aSignificant difference between all patients and those who survived the hospital stay (P < 0.05). GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale; ICU, intensive care unit; NA, not applicable; PRM, predicted risk of mortality; SAPS II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score II; SD, standard deviation; TISS-28, Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System; TMS, total maximum Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.