The following are the major conditions or complications that may be contributed to by cardiac arrest:
Injuries, poisoning, and certain other sequelae of external causes (S00-T98).
- Trauma (injury)
- After fall (29% of injuries): head and neck injuries (88%; intracranial hemorrhage, severe nosebleeds, fractures of cervical vertebrae, and fractures of the facial skull); extremity fractures (12%)
- By resuscitation (71% of all injuries): injuries of the thorax (89%; pneumothorax, hematothorax, and complicated fractures of the skeleton; hemopericardium, pneumomediastinum, and injuries of the lung)
- Significant injuries had 91 patients (7%), 36% of trauma was life-threatening, 64% required treatment
- 26% of injured patients were able to leave the ICU alive and were in good neurological condition
- Elderly and women are particularly at risk: Compared with uninjured patients after cardiac arrest, the injured were older (68 vs. 62 years) and more often female (46% vs. 31%)
In the case of successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation:
- Resumption of cardiac arrest
- Within five years, 6.0% suffered a cardiac arrest again outside a hospital, 92% died from it
- Age at second cardiac arrest median 69 years
- 73% were men
- After ten years, on average 29% of the survivors had died
- Most common causes of death after an initial event, especially in patients with diabetes (2-fold more common) and heart failure (2.4-fold more common) and renal failure (3-fold more common)
