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Long-Term Outcomes in Elderly Survivors of In-Hospital Cardiac Arrestthe American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines–Resuscitation Investigators N Engl J Med, 2013, 368:1019-1026 This page is only available to Crit-IQ subscribers. To view the rest of this review and gain access to our vast array of critical care teaching tools including podcasts, vodcasts, modules, exam preparation tools, teaching aids and much more, login here, or Become a Member to register |
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| This is interesting, but how many patients of this age group actually survived in-hospital cardiac arrest? Surviving to hospital discharge obviously defined a select, more robust subset of all those who had suffered a cardiac arrest and so perhaps not surprising that they had a reasonable longer term prognosis. Vernon | |
| Vernon-18 Mar, 2013 12:27:24 AM | |
| What I found surprising was that 10% of comatose/vegetative state elderly patients were alive at 1 year! Private hospital? | |
| Anni P-30 Mar, 2013 07:28:05 AM | |
Comment
This large observational study followed 6972 over 65 year old patients who had survived to hospital discharge after in-hospital cardiac arrest. They report;
- 1 year survival of 58.5%
- Risk factors for death at 1-year included older age, race (black patients worse outcome),...