Table 2.
Distribution of specific causesa among the two different CPR scenarios
| Total N = 717 |
Activated N = 345 |
Not activated N = 372 |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiac cause, No. (%) | 538 (100) | 287 (100) | 251 (100) | 0.526 |
| Acute coronary syndrome | 187 (34.8) | 96 (33.4) | 91 (36.3) | |
| Chronic coronary artery disease | 44 (8.2) | 22 (7.7) | 22 (8.8) | |
| Heart failure | 62 (11.5) | 37 (12.9) | 25 (10.0) | |
| Electrical heart disease | 42 (7.8) | 18 (6.3) | 24 (9.6) | |
| Structural heart disease | 23 (4.3) | 12 (4.2) | 11 (4.4) | |
| VT/VF unspecified | 180 (33.5) | 102 (35.5) | 78 (31.1) | |
| Non-cardiac cause, No. (%) | 179 (100) | 58 (100) | 121 (100) | 0.405 |
| Trauma | 16 (8.9) | 1 (1.7) | 15 (12.4) | |
| Submersion | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.8) | |
| Drug overdoses | 4 (2.2) | 1 (1.7) | 3 (2.5) | |
| Asphyxia | 78 (43.6) | 26 (44.8) | 52 (43.0) | |
| Exsanguination | 21 (11.7) | 8 (13.8) | 13 (10.7) | |
| Suicide | 7 (3.9) | 3 (5.2) | 4 (3.3) | |
| Otherb | 46 (25.7) | 16 (27.6) | 30 (24.8) | |
| PEA/asystole unspecified | 6 (3.4) | 3 (5.2) | 3 (2.5) |
CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, PEA pulseless electrical activity, VT ventricular tachycardia, VF ventricular fibrillation
aIn 251 cases the cause was unknown and therefore these cases are not included in this table
bOther includes cases such as cerebral causes or sepsis