Table 1 Demographic data, admission diagnosis, severity of illness, and morbidity of all patients admitted to the intensive care unit from 1999 to 2001 with cardiac arrest (n = 354)

66 ± 13

68 ± 12

61 ± 13

61 ± 12

68 (60/75)

70 (62/77)

61 (53/72)

64 (50/68)

252/102 (71/29)

148/56 (73/27)

57/24 (70/30)

6/1 (86/14)

9 ± 16 (1–113)

8 ± 14 (1–98)

7 ± 11 (1–78)

17 ± 23 (2–67)

3 (1/9)

4 (1/9)

3 (2/7)

6 (2/18)

25 ± 28 (1–176)

4 ± 18 (1–150)^a

19 ± 18 (1–103)

35 ± 30 (2–101)

15 (5/33)

NA

14 (10/22)

26 (15/38)

47 ± 23

58 ± 19^a

38 ± 20

47 ± 21

45 (31/63)

58 (44/71)^a

33 (23/53)

53 (24/66)

42 ± 33

58 ± 30^a

42 ± 33

45 ± 36

35 (12/74)

64 (33/85)^a

14 (5/52)

53 (6/78)

34 ± 11

36 ± 10

31 ± 8

37 ± 3

34 (28/40)

36 (28/43)

32 (26/37)

37 (34/40)

9.6 ± 5.2

11.8 ± 4.5^a

6.3 ± 5.0

7.7 ± 5.3

11 (5/13)

13 (10/15)^a

5 (2/11)

9 (1/10)