TITLE:
Are There Age-Related Differences in the In-Hospital Treatment of Victims from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?
AUTHORS:
Martin Christ, Katharina Isabel von Auenmueller, Irini Maria Breker, Jeanette Liebeton, Michael Brand, Jan Peter Noelke, Hans-Joachim Trappe
KEYWORDS:
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia, Coronary Angiography, Resuscitation, Elderly
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
Vol.6 No.6,
June
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: Objective: Hardly anything is known about reasons for age-related differences in surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with worse surviving rates in elderly. Methods: 204 victims from OHCA who were admitted in our hospital between January 1st 2008 and December 31st 2013 were identified. According to their mean age (69.1 ± 14.2 years) we classified those patients (pts) who were younger than mean age minus standard deviation (SD) as young, and those victims from OHCA who were older than mean age plus SD as old. Results: Young victims from OHCA (n = 32 pts) presented more often with an initial shockable rhythm than the elderly (n = 38 pts) (50.0% vs. 21.1%; p = 0.014), received more often coronary angiography (71.9% vs. 18.4%; p