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Table 4 Adjusted odds ratio of patient and EMS characteristics for neurologically favorable survival

From: Effectiveness of prehospital Magill forceps use for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to foreign body airway obstruction in Osaka City

 

Adjusted OR

95% CI

pvalue

Age (for 1-increment of year)

0.98

0.95

1.02

0.308

Male

1.08

0.45

2.61

0.858

Location of accident

    

 Home

Reference

   

 Health care facility

1.73

0.40

7.52

0.465

 Others

2.54

0.82

7.93

0.108

Disability in activities of daily living before arrests

1.04

0.41

2.65

0.930

Bystander-initiated CPR

0.73

0.22

2.41

0.605

Magill forceps use

3.96

1.21

13.00

0.023

Collapse to call (for 1-increment of minute)

0.87

0.77

0.99

0.032

Call to arrival at the hospital (for 1-increment of minute)

0.99

0.93

1.05

0.774

  1. Abbreviations: CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, EMS emergency medical system, OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval.