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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Crit Care Med. 2018 Feb;46(2):e141–e150. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002846

Table 1.

Admission characteristics for all 385 patients

Characteristics Survivors to Discharge
30.4 (n = 117)
Nonsurvivors
69.6 (n = 268)
p value
Age, mean±SD 60±15 67±18 0.001*
Male % (n) 52 (140) 56 (66) 0.5
Pre-arrest comorbidities
 -BMI, mean±SD 29±7.5 29.5±7.4 0.48
 -Hypertension, % (n) 54 (63) 63 (168) 0.39
 -Myocardial infarction, % (n) 18 (21) 19 (51) 0.46
 -Congestive heart failure, % (n) 29 (24.8) 88 (33) 0.12
 -Diabetes mellitus, % (n) 29 (34) 35.8 (96) 0.45
 -Cerebrovascular disease, % (n) 12 (14) 13.4 (36) 0.74
 -Renal disease, % (n) 22.2 (26) 24.6 (66) 0.7
 -Liver disease, % (n) 8 (6.9) 5.2 (14) 0.63
Smoking status, % (n) 0.9
 -Current smoker 22.5 (25) 21 (48)
 -Past smoker 33 (37) 36 (81)
 -Never smoker 44 (49) 43 (97)
Pre-arrest CPC, % (n) <0.001*
 -CPC 1 74(86) 46 (112)
 -CPC 2 15 (17) 24 (63)
 -CPC 3 10 (12) 28 (74)
 -CPC 4 0.9 (1) 2 (4)
Out of hospital cardiac arrest, % (n) 63 (74) 77 (206) 0.009
Initial Rhythm, % (n) <0.001*
 -Ventricular Fibrillation 44 (46) 14 (34)
 -Pulseless electrical activity 42 (44) 50 (126)
 -Asystole 14 (15) 37 (92)
Bystander CPR, % (n) 0.007
-No CPR 30 (35) 44 (118)
-Yes, by a bystander 21 (25) 24 (63)
-Yes, with medical personnel 49 (57) 33 (87)
Bystander Defibrillation, % (n) 0.003
-No defibrillation 50 (59) 67 (179)
-Yes, by a bystander 3 (4) 1 (2)
-Yes, with medical personnel 46 (54) 33 (87)
Time to ROSC, mean±SD 17±13 27±19 <0.001*
Therapeutic Temperature Management 77 (90) 75 (199) 0.79
ICU Length of stay, median (IQR) 12 (6.5–22) 4 (2–7) <0.001*
Hospital Length of stay, median (IQR) 23 (13–33) 4 (2–8) <0.001*
*

BMI = body mass index

CPC = cerebral performance score,

CPR = cardiopulmonary resuscitation,

§

OOH = out-of-hospital