Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in relation to sex: A nationwide registry-based study

Resuscitation

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1212-1218

  Wissenberg, Mads ^a   Hansen, Carolina Malta ^a   Folke, Fredrik ^a   Lippert, Freddy K ^b   Weeke, Peter ^a   Karlsson, Lena ^a   Rajan, Shahzleen ^a   Søndergaard, Kathrine Bach ^a   Kragholm, Kristian ^c   Christensen, Erika Frischknecht ^d   Nielsen, Søren L ^b   Køber, Lars ^e   Gislason, Gunnar H ^a,f   Torp Pedersen, Christian ^g  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b The Emergency Medical Services Capital Region of Denmark   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d Central Denmark Region   (Denmark)

^e University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^g AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Resuscitation; Sex; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ADULT; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84906064739     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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