Annals of emergency medicine
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To describe the prognosis in consecutive patients discharged from hospital after prehospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Among patients who survived out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, one of five died during the first year and one of five survived 10 years after discharge. Prognosis was associated with a history of myocardial infarction, prescription of beta-blockers at discharge, age, and CPC at discharge.