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Demographic and clinical characteristics of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients |
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| Characteristics |
Epinephrine group (n = 452) |
Vasopressin group (n = 146) |
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| Males/femalesa |
301/151 |
95/51 |
| Age in yearsb |
62.2 ± 17.8 |
60.8 ± 15.9 |
| Bystander CPR, number (percentage)a |
99/452 (22%) |
31/146 (21%) |
| Time to initiation of CPR in minutesb |
8.6 ± 5.3 |
7.8 ± 5.1 |
| Average dose of epinephrine in milligramsb,c |
7.6 ± 4.2 |
4.5 ± 2.7 |
| Bicarbonate, number (percentage)a,c |
172/452 (38%) |
31/146 (21%) |
| Atropine, number (percentage)a,c |
186/452 (41%) |
42/146 (29%) |
| Dopamine, dobutamine, and norepinephrine, number (percentage)a,c |
98/452 (22%) |
15/146 (10%) |
| Resuscitation by medical team in minutesb,c |
29.3 ± 9.4 |
18.7 ± 7.8 |
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aBy Fisher exact test; bby Wilcoxon rank sum test; cp < 0.05. CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation. | ||
Mally et al. Critical Care 2007 11:R39 doi:10.1186/cc5726 |
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