CPR change helping save more lives
Health: Technology key in cardiac arrest survival

 
By Vallery Brown
Published: August 12, 2008

New technology and a switch to hands-only CPR are proving to be the difference between life, death and brain damage in cardiac arrest patients, emergency-medicine specialists say.

The survival rate for patients who get immediate bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation increased from 18 percent in 2006 to 32 percent last year, said T.J. Reginald , director of clinical research and development for the office of the med...


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