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Table 1 Comparison of patient characteristics between patients with good and poor neurological outcomes

From: Prognostic value of the recovery time of continuous normal voltage in amplitude-integrated electroencephalography in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia: a retrospective study

 

All patients (n = 30)

Good outcome (n = 18)

Poor outcome (n = 12)

p value

Age (years)a

62 (45–71)

47 (43–66)

70 (62–72)

0.01b

Male, number (%)

27 (90 %)

15 (83 %)

12 (100 %)

0.26c

Witnessed collapse

26 (87 %)

16 (89 %)

10 (83 %)

1c

Time from collapse to

    

ROSC (min)a

22 (18–40)

19 (14–22)

44 (30–47)

<0.001b

Target temperature (h)a

5.5 (4.2–6.7)

6.1 (5.3–8.0)

4.0 (1.3–5.7)

0.02b

aEEG monitoring (h)a

6.8 (4.8–8.5)

6.1 (4.7–8.2)

6.9 (5.3–9.3)

0.35b

Duration of aEEG monitoring (h)a

50 (45–63)

53 (46–58)

47 (45–68)

0.90b

Coronary angiography, number (%)

28 (93 %)

17 (94 %)

11 (92 %)

1c

ECPR, number (%)

4 (13 %)

0 (0 %)

4 (33 %)

0.02c

  1. ROSC return of spontaneous circulation, aEEG amplitude-integrated electroencephalography, CPC cerebral performance category, ECPR extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  2. aMedian (interquartile range)
  3. bMann-Whitney U test
  4. cFisher’s exact test