Shorter pause in CPR before defibrillator use improves cardiac arrest survival

Monday, June 20, 2011 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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