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Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) characteristics of patients stratified by age who had resuscitation attempted and were transported to tertiary emergency medical institutions in Osaka Prefecture, Japan; especially those of advanced age. Methods: A prospective, population‐based, observational review was carried out of consecutive OHCA patients with emergency responder resuscitation attempts from July 2012 to December 2016 in Osaka, Japan. Patients were classified into four groups: (i) 18–64 years; (ii) 65–74 years; (iii) 75–84 years; and (iv) ≥85 years. Patient, event and treatment characteristics were examined for patients with presumed cardiac etiology of OHCA. The primary outcome was the 1‐month survival with a neurologically favorable outcome. Results: A total of 4636 patients with OHCA of presumed cardiac origin were transported to tertiary emergency medical institutions. The number of patients in the four groups was as follows: (i) 1290 (27.8%); (ii) 1102 (23.8%); (iii) 1420 (30.6%); and (iv) 824 (17.8%). The 1‐month survival with a neurologically favorable outcome was: (i) 207 (16.0%); (ii) 96 (8.7%); (iii) 60 (4.2%); and (iv) seven (0.85%). In a multivariate analysis for 1‐month survival with a neurologically favorable outcome, increased age was a significant prognostic factor (≥85 years; adjusted odds ratio 0.08, 95% confidence interval 0.03–0.23) for poor outcomes. Conclusions: In this population, advanced age (≥85 years) was strongly associated with poor outcomes. Further discussion of policies directed at resuscitation of very elderly OHCA patients is required, considering limited medical resources and the rapidly aging population in Japan. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2019; 19: 1088–1095. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is performed in refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, and the eligibility has been conventionally determined based on three criteria (initial cardiac rhythm, time to hospital arrival within 45 minutes, and age <75 years) in Japan. Owing to limited information, this study descriptively determined neurological outcomes after applying the three criteria among OHCA patients who underwent ECPR.Methods: This study conducted a post-hoc analysis of data from the Comprehensive Registry of Intensive Care for OHCA Survival (CRITICAL) study. This was a multi-institutional prospective observational study of OHCA patients in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. All adult (aged ≥18 years) OHCA patients with internal medical causes treated with ECPR between 1 July 2012 and 31 December 2019 were evaluated. We described one-month neurological favourable outcomes based on the three criteria (initial shockable, time to hospital arrival within 45 minutes, and age <75 years), and we compared them using the chi-square test.Results: Among 18,379 patients screened from the CRITICAL study database, we included 517 OHCA patients treated by ECPR; 311 (60.2%) patients met all three criteria. Favourable neurological outcomes were as follows: patients meeting no or one criterion: 2.3% (1/43), those meeting two criteria: 8% (13/163), and those meeting all criteria: 16.1% (50/311) (P-value = 0.004).Conclusions: In this study, approximately 60% of patients treated by ECPR met the three criteria (initial shockable, time to hospital arrival within 45 minutes, and age <75 years), and the greater the number of criteria met, the better were the neurological outcomes achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]