Table 1.

Demographic, clinical and resuscitation characteristics of non heart beating donors admitted to the authors' institution (n = 63)

Male sex – n (%)	54 (86%)
Age – years	41 ± 10
Location of cardiac arrest – %
Home	52.4%
Outdoors	30.2%
Workplace	15.8%
Psychiatric hospital	1.6%
Maastricht 1/2 – n (%)	54 (86%)/9(14%)
CPR performed by bystanders (%)	39%
Automated external defibrillation by emergency medical technicians	37%
Temporary return to spontaneous circulation during advanced life support – n (%)	5 (8%)
Duration of spontaneous circulation – minute (± SD)	11 ± 7
End-Tidal carbon dioxide at admission (n = 31) – mmHg	13 ± 12
Temperature at admission – °C	33 ± 2
Interval between phone SAMU call to ICU admission – minutes	48 (13–120)
Interval (minutes median (min-max)) from collapse
To phone call from bystanders to the advanced life support	0 (0–28)
To external cardiac massage	5 (0–30)
To CPR for basic life support	10 (1–40)
To CPR for advanced life support	18 (0–56)
To discontinuation of unsuccessful CPR	35 (20–95)
To departure from the site	61 (35–130)
To arrival at our hospital	105 (65–163)
To aortic catheter placement	144 (105–185)
Cold ischaemia (DBC insertion to transplantation)-hours median (min-max)	12 h 52 (8 h 30–18 h 00)
Interval from aortic catheter placement to retrieval – minute median (min-max)	175 (110–225)

Data expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) unless stated otherwise.

CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation; DBC = double balloon catheter; ICU = intensive care unit.