The American journal of medicine
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Review Case Reports
Pulmonary embolism as a result of Hickman catheter-related thrombosis.
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Elderly and younger patients who were successfully resuscitated and hospitalized following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were studied to determine if there was a significant difference in hospital course and long-term survival between the two groups. ⋯ Resuscitation of elderly patients in whom out-of-hospital cardiac arrest occurs is reasonable and appropriate, according to the findings of this study. Even though elderly patients are more likely than younger patients to die during hospitalization, the hospital stay of the elderly is not longer, the elderly do not have more residual neurologic impairments, and survival after hospital discharge is similar to that in younger patients.