Figure 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria for the primary analysis.
Between 2000 and 2018, 22,332 pediatric in-hospital events requiring CPR were registered in the Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation registry. A total of 13,184 patients were included for the final analysis, of which 7433 patients had a pulseless cardiac arrest and 5751 patients had a non-pulseless event requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation. CPR denotes cardiopulmonary resuscitation.