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Figure 1 Changes in coagulation over the first two intensive care unit days in 67 patients successfully resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, 17 survivors (S) (open boxes) and 50 nonsurvivors (NS) (black boxes). Patients receiving oral anticoagulation were excluded from the protein C and S graphs. Of the 67 patients studied at admission, 8 died within one day and 17 within two days. Repeated-measures analysis of variance was used to compare the time-course of coagulation markers between S and NS. Medians are shown as lines, 25th to 75th percentiles as boxes, and 5th to 95th ranges as error bars. PAP = plasmin-antiplasmin complex; sTM = soluble thrombomodulin; TAT = thrombin-antithrombin complex.