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Table 1 Patient demographics and the first measured vital parameters

From: An increased potential for organ donors may be found among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Prehospital tentative diagnosis

N

Sex (F/M)

Age

p-value

Systolic blood pressure

p-value

Glasgow Coma Score (Median, Quartiles)

p-value

Respiratory frequency (Median, Quartiles)

p-value

Stroke

49

26/23

70 (61, 75.5)

0.02

(Median, Quartiles)

 < 0.001

10 (3, 14.2)

0.008

20 (19, 22)

 < 0.001

Cardiac Arrest

22

8/14

44.5 (32, 63)

175 (150, 195)

3 (3, 3)

0 (0,0)

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

21

16/5

71 (62, 76.5)

0 (0, 0)

5 (3.5, 9)

19 (10, 22)

Head Trauma

14

8/6

49 (34.75,59.75)

157.5 (140, 210)

3 (3, 4)

18 (13, 21.5)

Miscellaneous diagnoses

15

6/9

45 (36, 55)

142.5 (125, 190)

3.5 (3, 12.5)

20 (19, 24)

No diagnosis assigned

14

9/5

64.5 (54.5, 77.75)

130 (85, 150)

7 (4, 13.25)

18 (12.25, 24.25)

Total population

135

73/62

63 (46, 73)

145 (128.75, 188.75)

4 (3, 12)

19 (11, 21.5)

  1. Miscellaneous diagnoses included: Convulsions, Intoxication, Multi trauma, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Alcohol Intoxication, Asphyxia, Chronic Fatigue, Unspecified Injury, Pneumonia, and Unspecified diagnosis. (Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance has been applied)