Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift
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Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr. · Jun 1977
[Short- and long-term prognosis of cardiac arrest in acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].
Of 80 patients with acute myocardial infarction who had a cardiac arrest without shock 42 (52.5%) were resuscitated in a cardiological intensive care unit. Twenty-six were finally discharged from hospital. After an average of four years, 21 patients were still alive. ⋯ Ventricular extrasystoles were demonstrated by ECG in 11. Eight had depressive episodes. It is likely that a further decrease in death-rate can be achieved only if the interval between onset of infarction and admission to an intensive care unit can be shortened.