title: Risk indicators for, and symptoms associated with, death among patients hospitalized after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An increasing proportion of patients who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are initially successfully resuscitated and thus hospitalized.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To define risk indicators for, and to describe the mode of, in-hospital death among patients hospitalized after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
  
  
  METHODS
  Göteborg, Sweden.
  
  
  METHODS
  All patients hospitalized after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between 1980 and 1992.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 707 out of 3434 patients were hospitalized after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, of whom 278 (39%) were discharged alive. Independent risk indicators for in-hospital death were: type of initial arrhythmia on the scene, age, interval between cardiac arrest and arrival of first ambulance, bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation and history of diabetes mellitus. Of the patients who died in hospital, 88% had brain damage and 43% myocardial damage.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Risk indicators for hospital death can be defined. The majority of in-hospital deaths were associated with brain damage.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Herlitz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ekström
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wennerblom
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Axelsson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bång
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Holmberg
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000552:Ambulances; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D002423:Cause of Death; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology