For cardiac arrest CPR performed by laypersons, chest compression-only may lead to better outcomes

Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

In a comparison of outcomes in Arizona for out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest performed by bystanders, patients who received compression-only CPR were more likely to survive to hospital discharge than patients who received conventional CPR or no CPR, according to a new study.

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