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Table 2 Intensive care unit-factors

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

APACHE II-score excluding age points, median (IQR)

20 (15–27)

22 (15–27)

0.181

TISS-Score, median (IQR)

   

 Daily average

37 (31–43)

34 (28–41)

< 0.001

 Total TISS-score

147 (93–227)

116 (65–192)

< 0.001

Treatments received, % (n)

   

 Controlled ventilation with or without positive end-expiratory pressure

98 (1055)

93 (197)

< 0.001

 Induced hypothermia

42 (450)

16 (34)

< 0.001

 Vasoactive drug infusion (> 1 drug)

47 (503)

38 (80)

0.015

 Continous antiarrhythmia infusions

20 (212)

17 (35)

0.273

 Seizure treatment

13 (140)

6 (13)

0.004

 Hemodialysis in unstable patient

2 (18)

4 (8)

0.048

 Arterial line

100 (1071)

100 (211)

0.432

In-hospital mortality %(n)

   

 Dead in ICU

18 (194)

33 (69)

< 0.001

 Dead in hospital

33 (357)

49(104)

< 0.001

Length of stay in days, median (IQR)

   

 ICU

3 (2–5)

2 (1–4)

< 0.001

 Hospital

10 (4–20)

8 (3–16)

0.003

Length of stay in days among patients discharged alive, median (IQR)

   

 ICU

3 (2–6)

3 (2–6)

0.085

 Hospital

14 (8–24)

14 (8–23)

0.654