Figure 1From: Health care costs, long-term survival, and quality of life following intensive care unit admission after cardiac arrestFrom January 1999 to December 2001, a total of 2,806 patients were admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU). Of those patients, 354 (13%) had a cardiac arrest with subsequent cardiopulmonary resuscitation out of hospital, in hospital, or both and thus qualified for study entry.Back to article page