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Table 3 Outcomes of patients according to initial rhythm and pre-hospital epinephrine administrationa

From: Effects of prehospital epinephrine during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with initial non-shockable rhythm: an observational cohort study

Outcomes

Initial shockable rhythm (N= 15,492)

Initial nonshockable rhythm (N= 194,085)

 

Epinephrine

No epinephrine

P value

Epinephrine

No epinephrine

P value

 

(n = 3,136)

(n = 12,356)

 

(n = 20,540)

(n = 173,545)

 

Prehospital ROSC

716

(22.8)

3,426

(27.7)

<0.0001

3,847

(18.7)

5,248

(3.0)

<0.0001

One-month survival

482

(15.4)

3,338

(27.0)

<0.0001

795

(3.9)

3,819

(2.2)

<0.0001

One-month CPC score 1 or 2

219

(7.0)

2,301

(18.6)

<0.0001

121

(0.59)

1,078

(0.62)

0.605

  1. aCPC, Cerebral Performance Categories; ROSC, return of spontaneous circulation. Values are reported as n (%).