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Table 6 Comparison of the proportion of patients with a favourable neurological outcome between the two target temperature groups using propensity score analysis with the inverse probability of the following treatment-weighting method: patients with a resuscitation interval of ≤30 min and ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia

From: Effectiveness of lower target temperature therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest syndrome patients with a resuscitation interval of ≤30 min

Variable

Target temperature

OR (95 % CI)

P value

VF/VT

<34 °C (vs. ≥34 °C)

19.43 (2.39–158.04)

0.006

  1. The propensity score analysis incorporated the following variables: age, sex (male), bystander CPR, and resuscitation interval
  2. OR odds ratio, CI confidence interval