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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2019 Apr 22;140(5):370–378. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.118.039048

Table 4.

Survival to discharge in patients with bradycardia with subsequent pulselessness, by time to pulselessness. Values represents numbers with percentage in parentheses*

<2 minutes 2 to 5 minutes >5 minutes
Total N Survival, n (%) Total N Survival, n (%) Total N Survival, n (%) P-trend
Overall 262 123 (47.0%) 242 61 (25.2%) 265 47 (17.7%) <0.001
PEA/asystole 233 114 (48.9%) 199 48 (24.1%) 197 33 (16.8%) <0.001
VF/VT 10 1 (10.0%) 22 5 (22.7%) 40 10 (25.0%) 0.36

Abbreviations: PEA, pulseless electrical activity; VF, ventricular fibrillation; VT, ventricular tachycardia

*

A total of 97 patients did not have time to pulselessness – 38 PEA, 47 asystole, 12 VF/VT