Table 3.
Resuscitation Guidelines by Cardiac Illness Category and Survival to Hospital Discharge
| Surgical Cardiac | Medical Cardiac | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status at Hospital Discharge | Status at Hospital Discharge | |||||
| Variable | Dead (N = 39) |
Alive (N = 49) |
P-value | Dead (N = 17) |
Alive (N = 8) |
P-value |
| Compression rate in guidelines (100-120 per min) | 15 (38.5%) | 12 (24.5%) | 0.1721 | 7 (41.2%) | 3 (37.5%) | 1.0001 |
| DBP (mmHg) ≥ 25 for infants or ≥ 30 for children | 17 (43.6%) | 34 (69.4%) | 0.0181 | 13 (76.5%) | 4 (50.0%) | 0.3591 |
| SBP (mmHg) ≥ 60 for infants or ≥ 80 for children | 18 (46.2%) | 29 (59.2%) | 0.2831 | 9 (52.9%) | 5 (62.5%) | 1.0001 |
| Ventilation Rate4 (/min) | 34.7 [26.7,49.4] | 34.9 [30.2,48.4] | 0.9442 | 24.7 [20.2,33.1] | 25.1 [25.1,25.1] | 1.0002 |
| ETCO2 < 10 (mmHg)4 | 2 (50.0%) | 2 (20.0%%) | 0.5201 | 1 (20.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 1.0001 |
| ETCO2 ≥ 20 (mmHg)4 | 0 (0.0%) | 4 (40.0%%) | 0.2511 | 3 (60.0%) | 1 (100.0%) | 1.0001 |
| CCF3 ≥ 90% | 22 (56.4%) | 25 (51.0%) | 0.8291 | 10 (58.8%) | 3 (37.5%) | 0.4111 |
1
Fisher's exact test.
2
Wilcoxon rank-sum test.
3
Chest compression fraction
4
Ventilation rate and ETCO2 data were not available for all cardiac subjects (N=14 surgical cardiac, N=6 medical cardiac).