Data from 136 patients in a tertiary teaching hospital in Wuhan, China, showed 119 (87.5%) patients had a respiratory cause for their cardiac arrest, and 113 (83.1%) were resuscitated in general wards (not the ICU). The initial rhythm was asystole (no detectable activity) in 89.7% of the patients, pulseless electrical activity (PEA) in 4.4%, and shockable (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, and/or supra ventricular tachycardia) in 5.9% of cardiac arrest patients. Most patients with IHCA were being monitored for cardiac arrest (93.4%) and in most resuscitation was initiated <1 min (89%). Of the patients receiving CPR in a non-ICU setting, restoration of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) was achieved in 18 (13.2%) patients, 4 (2.9%) patients survived for at least 30 days, and only 1 patient achieved a favorable neurological outcome at 30 days.