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Table 4 Diagnosis assigned by (1) The dispatcher over the telephone, (2) The prehospital anaesthesiologists, and (3) The final in-hospital diagnosis

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

Patient no

Presumed diagnosis assigned by the EMDC dispatcher

Prehospitally assigned diagnosis

Final in-hospital diagnosis

1

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

2

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

3

Cardiac arrest, opioids

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

4

Cardiac arrest, opioids

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

5

Cardiac arrest, hanging

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

6

Cardiac arrest, hanging

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

7

Cardiac arrest, drowning

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic origin

Cardiac arrest, hypoxic

8

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cerebral origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

9

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cerebral origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

10

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

11

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

12

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

13

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

14

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

15

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

16

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

17

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

18

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

19

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

20

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

21

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

22

Cardiac arrest

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin

Cardiac arrest, cardiac origin