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. 2018 Feb 5;28(2):67–74. doi: 10.2188/jea.JE20160179

Table 3. Outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to suffocation caused by rice cake and those not caused by rice cake.

  Total Caused by
rice cake
Not caused by
rice cake
P



(n = 3,294) (n = 314) (n = 2,980)
One-month survival, n (%) 454 (13.8%) 54 (17.2%) 400 (13.4%) 0.065
Pre-hospital ROSC, n (%) 577 (17.5%) 66 (21.0%) 511 (17.1%) 0.086
Total ROSC, n (%) 2,035 (61.8%) 226 (72.0%) 1,809 (60.7%) <0.001
Hospital admission, n (%) 1,863 (56.6%) 210 (66.9%) 1,653 (55.5%) <0.001
CPC 1 or 2, n (%) 85 (2.6%) 13 (4.1%) 72 (2.4%) 0.068

CPC, cerebral performance category; ROSC, return of spontaneous circulation.