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Improving Survival from Cardiac Arrest and TraumaImagine two dozen jumbo jets crashing every week, killing all aboard. Then you'd have an idea of the scope of cardiac arrest in America, a leading caus …

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COVID-19 patients survive in-hospital cardiac arrest at pre-pandemic ratesResuscitation and survival rates of hospitalized COVID-19 patients who've had cardiac arrest are much higher than earlier repo …

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The heart-stopping reality of cardiac arrestCardiac arrests are usually deadly, even when they happen in well-equipped, well-staffed hospitals. So researchers are trying to understand how best to help …

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Cardiac Arrest Survival Rates Higher with AED UseMore than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occur in the United States each year and more than 100,000 happen outside the home.An internatio …

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Worse outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in early weeks of pandemicThe rate of resuscitation for cardiac arrests outside of a hospital setting decreased during the first weeks of the COVID-1 …

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CPR is so simple that anyone can use it to save a life. But how did we get here? One man who owes his life to CPR went in search of the facts.ate one evening in December 2014, a healthy 55-year-o …

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