Chances of surviving cardiac arrest depend on where patients are treated
Sunday, January 11, 2009 - 10:57
in Health & Medicine
Efforts to fight the toll of cardiac arrest have typically focused on pre-hospital factors - bystander CPR education and improvement, public defibrillation programs, and quicker EMS response. But new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine reveals that the hospital where patients are cared for after being resuscitated plays a key role in their chances of survival following these incidents, which takes the lives of more than 300,000 Americans each year...
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