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 |