What is the mortality rate of patients with cardiogenic shock?
In-hospital mortality of all patients with shock was 59%.594 Patients with NSTEMI developed cardiogenic shock later than patients with STEMI, and had higher-risk clinical character- istics, more extensive CAD, and more recurrent ischemia and infarction before developing shock compared with patients with STEMI, and shock developed later in patients with NSTEMI.151 Patients with NSTEMI constituted >17% of those in the SHOCK They were also older and had more comorbidi- ties but had comparable mortality to patients with STEMI.