Dead on arrival in a low-income country: results from a multicenter study in Pakistan

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 4 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in dead on arrival patients in seven emergency departments in Pakistan (November 2010 to March 2011)

	CPR done		CPR not done		P	Odds ratio	95% Confidence Interval
	N	%	n	%
Age (in years)					0.01	*
0 to 9	8	16.7	50	3.4		2.71	0.98-7.52
10 to 19	2	4.2	96	6.6		0.46	0.10-2.18
20 to 29	11	22.9	293	20.0		0.70	0.28-1.73
30 to 39	4	8.3	162	11.1		0.49	0.15-1.25
40 to 49	4	8.3	225	15.4		0.38	0.11-1.25
50 to 59	5	10.4	251	17.2		0.47	0.15-1.43
50 to 69	5	10.4	201	13.7		0.58	0.19-1.76
70+	9	18.8	185	12.6		1
Gender
- Male	35	71.4	935	63.6
- Female	14	28.6	534	36.4
Type of hospital					<0.001
- Public	30	57.7	1219	81.0		1
- Private	22	42.3	286	19.0		2.81	1.53-5.12
Injury					0.01
- No	26	60.5	643	78.1
- Yes	17	39.5	180	21.9
Ambulance					0.54
- No	25	86.2	714	91.3
- Yes	4	13.8	28	8.7

* Age was significantly associated (P = 0.02) with CPR use in the multivariate logistic regression analysis

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