Head Computed Tomographic measurement as an early predictor of outcome in hypoxic-ischemic brain damage patients treated with hypothermia therapy

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the 4 patient groups

	Glasgow outcome scale
	1	2	3&4	5	P
No.	24	18	6	10
Male/Female, N	17/7	15/3	5/1	5/5	0.442
Age, years	65 ± 16	66 ± 18	73 ± 15	65 ± 11	0.754
Time between cardiac arrest and ROSC, min	53 ± 22	38 ± 12	30 ± 4	20 ± 15	<0.0001*
Time between ROSC and CT, min	35 ± 16	35 ± 11	60 ± 45	65 ± 50	0.012*
Witnessed arrest,%	24	61	83	90	<0.001*
Cause of cardiac arrest
Cardiogenic	2	10	4	8
Asphyxia	14	3	1	0
Others	8	5	1	2

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