Outcome of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitations at a tertiary referral center including results of "limited" resuscitations.

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Abstract
SEVERAL FACTORS affect survival after cardiac arrest. Witnessing of arrests, early initiation of resuscitation, return of cardiac function within 20 minutes, and patient youth are associated with higher survival rates.1 We were interested in other factors that might affect survival after cardiac arrest within a single large teaching institution with a dedicated resuscitation team responding to arrests throughout the hospital. In addition to the details of the resuscitations themselves, we examined other factors: whether patients were monitored at the time of cardiac arrest (intensive care unit [ICU] vs nursing floor), the outcome of arrests in miscellaneous and remote locations (radiology suites, dialysis unit, cafeteria, etc), the correlation of outcome with the patient's primary disease process, and the time of day when the arrest occurred. We also examined the interactions of these and other factors on survival at various times after resuscitation.

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