Table 5.
Hospital treatments and status at hospital discharge among patients receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) outside hospital during evaluable period of trial*. Values are numbers (percentages†) of patients
| Evaluable period | ||
|---|---|---|
| Feedback-off | Feedback-on | |
| Hospital treatments in patients surviving ≥1 day | n=213 | n=234 |
| Hypothermia | 117 (57) | 130 (57) |
| Diagnostic catheterisation | 50 (24) | 53 (23) |
| Percutaneous coronary intervention | 43 (21) | 35 (15) |
| Coronary artery bypass graft surgery | 5 (2) | 8 (4) |
| Permanent pacemaker | 4 (2) | 7 (3) |
| Implantable cardioverter defibrillator | 23 (11) | 19 (8) |
| Status of subjects surviving to hospital discharge | n=96 | n=92 |
| Awake, no disability reported | 29 (32) | 35 (39) |
| Awake with presumed disability, discharged home | 12 (13) | 13 (15) |
| Awake with presumed disability, discharged to inpatient rehab | 13 (14) | 15 (17) |
| Awake with presumed disability, discharged to nursing home | 22 (24) | 18 (20) |
| Not awake | 15 (16) | 8 (9) |
| Missing discharge status/location | 5 (5) | 3 (3) |
*Trial of CPR provided by emergency medical services with monitor-defibrillator providing real-time feedback on CPR process (“feedback-on”) or not providing feedback (“feedback-off”).
†Data missing in approximately 3% of cases, and percentages based on non-missing data.