Table 1 Demographic, clinical and resuscitation characteristics of non heart beating donors admitted to the authors' institution (n = 63)

Male sex – n (%)

54 (86%)

Age – years

41 ± 10

Location of cardiac arrest – %

Home

52.4%

Outdoors

30.2%

Workplace

15.8%

Psychiatric hospital

1.6%

Maastricht 1/2 – n (%)

54 (86%)/9(14%)

CPR performed by bystanders (%)

39%

Automated external defibrillation by emergency medical technicians

37%

Temporary return to spontaneous circulation during advanced life support – n (%)

5 (8%)

Duration of spontaneous circulation – minute (± SD)

11 ± 7

End-Tidal carbon dioxide at admission (n = 31) – mmHg

13 ± 12

Temperature at admission – °C

33 ± 2

Interval between phone SAMU call to ICU admission – minutes

48 (13–120)

Interval (minutes median (min-max)) from collapse

To phone call from bystanders to the advanced life support

0 (0–28)

To external cardiac massage

5 (0–30)

To CPR for basic life support

10 (1–40)

To CPR for advanced life support

18 (0–56)

To discontinuation of unsuccessful CPR

35 (20–95)

To departure from the site

61 (35–130)

To arrival at our hospital

105 (65–163)

To aortic catheter placement

144 (105–185)

Cold ischaemia (DBC insertion to transplantation)-hours median (min-max)

12 h 52 (8 h 30–18 h 00)

Interval from aortic catheter placement to retrieval – minute median (min-max)

175 (110–225)