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Differential Effects of Out-of-hospital Interventions on Short- and Long-term Survival After Cardiopulmonary Arrest by Henry E. Wang; Alice Min; David Hostler; Chung-Chou H. Chang; Clifton W. Callaway is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between prehospital clinical variables, interventions and survival time after cardiac arrest and to determine whether various factors affect the risk of death differently at early and late time periods. ## Methods: Time-to-death (days) after collapse was identified using the paramedic record, the social security death index or obituaries for adult (> or =18 years) out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (oohca) cases from pittsburgh, pennsylvania between 1998 and 2002. clinical prehospital variables included age of patient, sex, witnessed collapse, bystander cpr, use of an automated external defibrillator (aed), initial ecg rhythm, medications and response time intervals. we used cox regression with time varying coefficients to describe the effects of each covariate separately upon short-term (on day 1) and long-term (after day 1) survival. ## Results: Of 1496 adult patients, overall mortality was 89.5%. the majority (75%) of deaths occurred on day 1. of the 1339 deaths, 1213 (90.6%) occurred by day 3, 1272 (95.0%) occurred by day 7 and 1299 (97.0%) occurred by day 14. witnessed collapse (hazard ratio 0.85; 95% ci: 0.75-0.97) or
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- Author
- Henry E. Wang; Alice Min; David Hostler; Chung-Chou H. Chang; Clifton W. Callaway
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0300-9572)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)