Table 3.
Outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of non-cardiac origin according to the cause
| Total |
External causes |
Respiratory diseases |
Malignant tumors |
Strokes |
Others |
||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n=14 164) |
(n=8239) |
(n=1448) |
(n=1309) |
(n=1114) |
(n=2054) |
pValue* | |||||||
| Prehospital ROSC, n (%) | 1229 | (8.7) | 703 | (8.5) | 114 | (7.9) | 57 | (4.4) | 216 | (19.4) | 139 | (6.8) | <0.001 |
| Total ROSC, n (%) | 4744 | (33.5) | 2638 | (32.0) | 620 | (42.8) | 234 | (17.9) | 650 | (58.3) | 602 | (29.3) | <0.001 |
| Hospital admission, n (%) | 4142 | (29.2) | 2356 | (28.6) | 530 | (36.6) | 173 | (13.2) | 585 | (52.5) | 498 | (24.2) | <0.001 |
| One-month survival, n (%) | 755 | (5.3) | 510 | (6.2) | 94 | (6.5) | 11 | (0.8) | 55 | (4.9) | 85 | (4.1) | <0.001 |
| Neurologically favourable outcome, n (%) | 188 | (1.3) | 105 | (1.3) | 27 | (1.9) | 2 | (0.2) | 17 | (1.5) | 37 | (1.8) | <0.001 |
Data on 1-month survival and neurological status were missing for seven victims.
*p Values are calculated to test the homogeneity among the five cause groups.
ROSC, return of spontaneous circulation.