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Table 2 Differences in characteristics for 30-day survivors or not among 1764 prehospital traumatic cardiac arrests (TCA) in the Swedish Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation between 1990 and 2016

From: Traumatic cardiac arrest in Sweden 1990-2016 - a population-based national cohort study

 

30-day survivors 65 (100)

Non-survivors 1699 (100)

P-value*

Sex

 Male

52 (80)

1290 (76)

0.51

Age

 Years, mean (SD)

46 (21)

52 (33)

0.14

Witnessed by

 Crew

10 (15)

239 (14)

0.76

 Bystander

39 (60)

671 (39)

< 0.01

 None

9 (14)

609 (36)

0.01

CPR before arrival of EMS

 Yes

37 (57)

701 (41)

< 0.01

Initial rhythm

 Shockable

29 (44)

134 (8)

< 0.01

Place of OHCA

 Public or other area

56 (86)

1340 (79)

0.19

Time intervals in minutes (median)

 Collapse to call

1

2

0.03

 Collapse to start of CPR

1,5

4

0.02

 Collapse to defibrillation

8

13

0.05

 Call to arrival of EMS

7

10

0.02

Treatment

 Adrenaline

28 (43)

1038 (61)

< 0.01

 Intubation

21 (32)

768 (45)

0.05

  1. *P-value assessed with two-sided Chi2 test or Students t-tes0