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Table 1 Patients characteristics

From: Intensive care–treated cardiac arrest: a retrospective study on the impact of extended age on mortality, neurological outcome, received treatments and healthcare-associated costs

 

Age < 75 (n = 1073)

Age ≥75 (n = 212)

p

Women, % (n)

26 (281)

33 (70)

0.041

Location of arrest, % (n)

  

< 0.001

 OHCA

64 (691)

43 (92)

 

 IHCA

27 (286)

46 (97)

 

 ICUCA

9 (96)

11 (23)

 

Witnessed arrest, % (n) a

87 (935)

91 (193)

0.130

Initial cardiac-arrest rhythm, % (n)

  

< 0.001

 Shockable (VT or VF)

60 (641)

44 (94)

 

 Non-Shockable (all other rhythms)

35 (378)

49 (104)

 

 Unknown

5 (54)

6.6 (14)

 

Time to ROSC in minutes, median (IQR) b

16 (10–23)

10 (5–18)

< 0.001

Independent preadmission functional status % (n)c

90 (960)

75 (158)

< 0.001

  1. a 2 % of patients are missing this information
  2. b 9,5 % of patients are missing this information
  3. c 4.7 % of patients are missing this information