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Article: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on the Wards: Who Survives?
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- Critical Care Alert
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on the Wards: Who Survives?
Abstract & Commentary
Synopsis: In this review of outcomes from cardiopulmonary resuscitation among non-ICU inpatients in 3 urban teaching hospitals, no patient who had an unwitnessed cardiac arrest survived to discharge. Forty-four percent of patients with witnessed respiratory arrest returned to their homes, as compared with 13% of patients with witnessed cardiac arrest (21% for pulseless ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation, and 7% for pulseless electrical activity or asystole).
Source: Brindley PG, et al. Predictors of survival following in-hospital adult cardiopulmonary ...