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Older frail patients have a 1-in-3 chance of surviving CPR during surgeryIt’s estimated that around 25% of patients who have a cardiac arrest and receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a norma …

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Teen who survived sudden cardiac arrest raising awareness for student heart checksWhen 18-year-old Alex Bowerson suffered a cardiac arrest at wrestling practice last December, he was lucky his high sc …

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Cardiac arrest save at Wash. track event highlights use of AEDs at sports eventsThe right resources paired with the efficient execution of an emergency medical plan prevented the tragedy and turned tw …

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CPR & AED Education Crisis at Public SchoolsEvery year over 350,000 Americans experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest event; most of whom will not survive. The primary way a bystander can increas …

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The Las Cruces Fire Department's impact on sudden cardiac arrestLas Cruces has nearly twice as many sudden cardiac arrest patients as would be predicted based on population size when compared to natio …

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Extracorporeal CPR does not offer more favorable neurologic outcomeFor patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) does not improve favorable neuro …

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