Table 1.

Summary of selected studies examining the role of early coronary angiography and survival in patients successfully resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Author, year	Location	Sites, N	N	Age	Comatose, %	STEMI, %	Shockable, %	Timing of early catheterisation	Early catheterisation, %	Survival (early catheterisation vs no early catheterisation)
Aurore, 2011	Creteil, France	1 centre	445	61	NA	17.5	31.7	<2 h	29.9	23.0% vs 9.6%
Bro-Jeppeson, 2012	Copenhagen, Denmark	1 centre	360	61	100	32.2	80	<12 h	55	66.0% vs 54.0%
Callaway, 2014	Pittsburgh, PA, USA	151 hospitals	3981	67	NA	17.5	40.7	<24 h	19.2	64.7% vs 27.1%
Hollenbeck, 2014	Nashville, TN, USA	6 hospitals	269	60.1	100	0	100	Emergency	45.4	65.6% vs 48.6%
Kern, 2015	Tucson, AZ, USA	34 hospitals in US & Europe	746	61.0	100	26.0	58%	Immediate	48.3	STEMI: 54.7% vs 33.3% No STEMI: 57.9% vs 20.3%
Mooney, 2011	Minneapolis, MN, USA	1 centre	140	62	NA	49	76	Emergency	72	62.4% vs 38.0%
Nanjayya, 2011	Westmead, Australia	1 centre	70	60.7	100	64.3	100	Immediate	50	51.0% vs 34.0%
Nielsen, 2009	Lund, Sweden	38 centres, 7 countries	986	63	100	NA	70	Emergency	49	63.0% vs 49.9%
Strote, 2012	Seattle, WA, USA	11 hospitals	240	66.2	NA	34.2	100	<6 h	25	72.0% vs 49.0%
Tomte, 2011	Oslo, Norway	1 centre	248	62	70	NA	92	Emergency	77	52.0% vs 31.0%
Vyas, 2015	Iowa City, IA, USA	374 hospitals	4029	61	NA	19.9	100	<1 calendar day	48.5	76.0% vs 59.4%
Zanuttini, 2012	Udine, Italy	1 centre	93	67	100%	34	65	Emergency	51.6	60.0% vs 47.0%

NA, not available; STEMI, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction.