Open AccessOut-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Octogenarians and Nonagenarians
Author(s) -
Catherine Kim,
Linda Becker,
Mickey S. Eisenberg
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.160.22.3439
Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , odds ratio , ventricular fibrillation , hospital discharge , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , cardiology , logistic regression , ventricular tachycardia , resuscitation , emergency medicine
Studies of elderly patients who have out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have contradictory results. The studies usually define elderly patients as those older than 70 years, and include relatively few octogenarians and nonagenarians.
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