Table 1

Diagnosis	Age	Duration of stay (h)
Post EMD arrest, metastatic bronchial carcinoma	60	3.5
Dissection thoracic aortic aneurysm	83	1.2
Massive intracerebral bleed	72	4
Acute on chronic respiratory failure	79	5.4
Severe head injury—not amenable to neurosurgery	85	1.2
Left sided pneumothorax, respiratory failure, previous multiple CVAs	67	5
Post-community VF arrest	86	2
Overwhelming sepsis, aplastic anaemia at presentation	57	0.6
Massive intracerebral bleed	59	3.5