No

Author

Year

Age (years)

Sex

CA Site

Witness and Bystander CPR

Initial Rhythm

after CA

CA Cause

CA Time

Post-CA Neurological Signs

Time to OR

Long Term Outcome

1 [8]

Kurimoto

2002

71

Female

Prehospital

By a swimming

instructor

NA

Cardiac tamponade

45 min

Coma, involuntary limb movement in response to noxious stimuli

NA

Recovered

2 [9]

Saito

2007

80

Male

ICU

By a cardiac surgeon

PEA

Cardiac tamponade

NA

Voluntary limb movement in response to verbal stimuli

NA

Recovered with left hemiplegia

3 [10]

Fujii

2014

70

Male

ER

By an ER

physician

PEA

Cardiac tamponade

2 min

GCS M6

15 h

Partially recovered in the perioperative period but deceased because of pneumonia

4

Our case

2015

50

Male

Prehospital

By an EMS personnel

PEA

Unknown (hypoxia or transient aortic occlusion by flap)

8 min

GCS E1VTM4, left hemiplegia

3.5 h

Recovered