Positive impact of a clinical goal-directed protocol on reducing cardiac arrests during potential brain-dead donor maintenance

Table 3 Risk of occurrence of cardiac arrest according to compliance with the checklist for potential organ donor management

Intervention and population	N	Cardiac arrests	OR (95 % CI)	p value
Without checklist	83	44 (53.0)	1 (Reference^a)
With checklist	382	97 (25.4)	0.30 (0.18; 0.49)	<0.001
Number of interventions, n (%)^a
1	60	21 (35.0)	0.47 (0.24; 0.94)	0.033
2	23	11 (47.8)	0.81 (0.32; 2.05)	0.65
3	62	22 (38.7)	0.48 (0.24; 0.96)	0.036
4	102	21 (20.6)	0.23 (0.12; 0.44)	<0.001
5	85	16 (18.8)	0.20 (0.10; 0.41)	<0.001
6 and 7	50	6 (12.0)	0.12 (0.04; 0.31)	<0.001
8 and 9	0	0
Set of interventions, n (%)
1–3 items	145	54 (37.2)	0.52 (0.30; 0.90)	0.02
≥ 4 items	237	43 (18.1)	0.19 (0.11; 0.34)	0.001

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