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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Resuscitation. 2010 Dec 15;82(3):277–284. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.10.022

Table 4.

Patient, Scene, and Event Characteristics of OOHCA cases with transport initiated without documented ROSC, by site

% Female Median Age (years) Median Response Time (minutes) Median Scene Time (minutes) % in Public Location % with Bystander CPR % EMS-witnessed % ALS on scene % with ROSC After Transport Initiated
Alabama 43.4 65 6.0 15.0 13.5 24.8 13.8 99.7 4.8
Iowa 36.6 65 4.0 19.8 19.2 30.2 14.7 99.3 14.0
Ottawa-OPALS Group, Ontario, Canada 31.6 67 5.4 23.2 19.1 26.7 13.3 82.4 5.9
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 34.0 66 6.0 24.0 20.9 38.0 8.6 99.8 9.1
Portland, Oregon 25.7 60 4.7 25.1 27.8 43.3 8.8 100. 0 13.4
Seattle/King County, Washington 28.8 59 4.9 33.8 31.4 37.3 33.1 97.5 21.2
Toronto, Ontario, Canada 31.7 67 6.1 20.0 25.1 24.5 14.8 62.8 6.2
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 27.2 65 6.8 19.2 24.8 34.0 18.6 37.8 10.8
All Sites 32.4 66 5.7 21.5 22.0 29.3 14.2 78.9 8.4
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