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Table 2 Patient Demographics and OHCA Characteristics

From: Assessing unrealised potential for organ donation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

 

Total

Madrid Criteria

San Carlos, Madrid Criteria

Maastricht Criteria

Paris Criteria

p-value††

Best-case

Worst-case

Best-case

Worst-case

n = 12,546

n = 1202

n = 660

n = 2460

n = 1987

n = 648

n = 544

 

Patient Demographics

 

 Mean age in years (SD)

65.2 (18.5)

48.5 (9.0)

43.5 (9.8)

49.6 (12.8)

50.1 (11.8)

42.4 (9.2)

43.3 (8.6)

–

 Male (%)

8125 (64.8)

975 (81.1)

526 (79.7)

1940 (78.9)

1653 (83.2)

563 (86.9)

494 (90.8)

<.05

Ethnicity (%)

 

 Chinese

8492 (67.7)

627 (52.2)

333 (50.5)

1327 (53.9)

1050 (52.9)

323 (49.8)

279 (51.3)

<.05

 Malay

1961 (15.6)

276 (23.0)

150 (22.7)

540 (22.0)

430 (21.6)

112 (17.3)

86 (15.8)

<.05

(excl. Paris)

 Indian

1358 (10.8)

181 (15.0)

99 (15.0)

370 (15.0)

320 (16.1)

116 (17.9)

98 (18.0)

<.05

 Others

735 (5.9)

118 (9.8)

78 (11.8)

223 (9.1)

187 (9.4)

97 (15.0)

81 (14.9)

–

Presence of comorbidities precluding organ donation† (%)

8335 (66.4)

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

OHCA Characteristics (%)

 

 Witnessed Arrest

7502 (59.8)

–

–

–

–

–

–

–

First Arrest Rhythm†

 

 Asystole

6107 (48.7)

429 (35.7)

238 (36.0)

995 (40.4)

736 (37.0)

265 (40.9)

211 (38.8)

<.05

 PEA

3519 (28.0)

307 (25.5)

156 (23.6)

700 (28.5)

542 (27.3)

140 (21.6)

104 (19.1)

>.05

 VF

1908 (15.2)

371 (30.9)

201 (30.5)

589 (23.9)

563 (28.3)

194 (29.9)

186 (34.2)

<.05

 VT

58 (0.5)

6 (0.5)

2 (0.3)

11 (0.4)

10 (0.5)

2 (0.3)

2 (0.4)

>.05

Bystander CPR

5477 (43.7)

690 (57.4)

442 (67.0)

1112 (45.2)

899 (45.2)

334 (51.5)

292 (53.7)

<.05 (excl. Maastricht)

Median time to CPR initiation, min (IQR)

15.00 (12.08)

12.00 (8.08)

11.00 (10.00)

14.00 (10.23)

14.00 (10.00)

14.47 (9.45)

14.40 (9.19)

–

Bystander AED

399 (3.2)

74 (6.2)

52 (7.9)

112 (4.6)

97 (4.9)

41 (6.3)

39 (7.2)

<.05

Pre-hospital Defibrillation

3202 (25.5)

577 (48.0)

321 (48.6)

947 (38.5)

892 (44.9)

311 (48.0)

299 (55.0)

<.05

  1. † Examples include trauma, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), signs of infection, and unknown causes of death
  2. ‡ PEA = pulseless electrical activity; VF = ventricular fibrillation; VT = ventricular tachycardia
  3. †† Two-sample z-test was used for all statistical analyses