Cardiac arrest among geriatric patients. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • In a review of 292 hospital patients who had cardiac arrests over a period of two and a half years patients aged 60 and over were contrasted with those under 60, based on a 50-item clinical questionary completed at the time of the episode. Survival rates were identical (23%) in these two groups. On contrasting patients who survived with those who did not it was again found that age did not influence outcome. Patients with multiple arrests or without cardiographic evidence of ventricular standstill were much more likely to recover. Whether or not a doctor initiated therapy did not affect survival.

publication date

  • April 4, 1970

Research

keywords

  • Heart Arrest

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC1699772

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0014932057

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1136/bmj.2.5700.25

PubMed ID

  • 5440569

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 2

issue

  • 5700