Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Impact of age on survival for patients receiving extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for refractory out-of-hospital ventricular tachycardia (VT)/ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest
Main finding · Neurologically favorable survival to dischargeResult — go to the resultOdds ratio 0.7 CI 0.57–0.87Authors' conclusion
Age is associated with neurologically favorable survival to discharge for patients receiving ECPR for refractory out-of-the-hospital VT/VF cardiac arrest.
Study context
- Population
- Patients treated with ECPR for refractory out-of-hospital VT/VF arrest, University of Minnesota Medical Center, December 2015 to February 2023
- Participants
- 391 consecutive patients
- Exposure
- Older vs younger age
- Outcome
- Neurologically favorable survival to discharge
- Follow-up
- Discharge
Methodological detailssingle-centre, consecutive patients
- Single-centre
- Consecutive patients
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Odds ratio
0.7
CI 0.57–0.87
P = 0.001
Per 10-year increase in age
OR 0.7 (CI 0.57–0.87); P = 0.001
Per 10-year increase in age, as printed
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Length of hospital stay, by age group
- Neurologically favorable survivors: longer stay in older vs younger age groups
- P = 0.002
- Without neurologically favorable survival: similar stay independent of age
- P = 0.51
Original publication
Impact of age on survival for patients receiving ECPR for refractory out-of-hospital VT/VF cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 12 October 2023. doi:10.
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