Table 3.

The characteristics of the post-cardiac arrest patients, whose brain MRI showed global hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in four patients (80%) versus other patients with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia.

Characteristics of the post-cardiac arrest patients	Post-cardiac arrest COVID-19 pneumonia (Group C)	Other COVID-19 pneumonia patients, not experiencing cardiac arrest (Group D)	p value
Age (mean ± SD)	38.2 ± 17.84	53.73 ± 17.77	0.04**
Female/male	1/4	14/27	0.53*
GCS (mean ± SD)	5 ± 1.9	13.24 ± 3.0	0.0001**
No. of comorbidities (mean ± SD)	2 ± 1.8	2.2 ± 1.6	0.94*
Contrast; female/male (%)	2/5 (40%)	26/41 (63.4%)	–

*Significant correlation (p ≤ 0.05).

**No significant correlation (p > 0.05).