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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of all patients

From: Disseminated intravascular coagulation with the fibrinolytic phenotype predicts the outcome of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

 

Non DIC

DIC

p Value

(180)

(208)

 

Age (year)

66 (55–76)

71 (58–80)

0.020

Male sex (n,%)

112 (62.2)

124 (59.6)

0.604

Causes of cardiac arrest

 CNS/Cardiac/Respiratory/Asphyxia/Other/Unknown

13/99/24/32/11/1

18/86/30/37/32/5

 Cardiac (n,%)

99 (55.0)

86 (41.3)

0.008

Initial rhythm

 VF/Asystole/PEA/Pulseless VT/Unknown

32/41/33/3/71

24/75/35/6/24

 Shockable rhythm (n,%)

35 (19.4)

30 (14.4)

0.220

Witnessed arrest

75 (41.7)

92 (44.2)

0.681

Bystander CPR (n,%)

55 (30.6)

50 (24.0)

0.169

Shock by EMT (n,%)

42 (23.3)

44 (21.1)

0.626

Therapeutic hypothermia (n,%)

44 (24.4)

40 (19.2)

0.219

DIC score

2 (1–2)

5 (4–6)

0.000

SIRS score

3 (3–4)

4 (3–4)

0.048

SIRS (n,%)

178 (98.9)

208 (100)

0.215

SOFA day 0 score

6 (4–8)

9 (6–11)

0.000

MODS day 0 (n,%)

7 (3.9)

49 (23.6)

0.000

MODS day 5 (n,%)

10 (5.5)

67 (32.2)

0.000

Outcome death (n,%)

43 (23.9)

114 (54.8)

0.000

  1. CNS central nervous system, VF ventricular fibrillation, PEA pulseless electrical activity, VT ventricular tachycardia, CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation, EMT emergency medical technician, DIC disseminated intravascular coagulation, APACHEII Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, SIRS systemic inflammatory response syndrome, SOFA sequential organ failure assessment, MODS multiple organ dysfunction syndrome