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Article: CHANCES OF SURVIVING CARDIAC ARREST BETTER IN BIGGER HOSPITALS

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January 10, 2009
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Arun Kumar

Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication.

Washington, Jan. 10 -- (IANS) People who go through cardiac arrest have better chances of survival in large, urban and teaching hospitals, according to a recent study.

Chances of survival are better still if such patients are treated in the highest volume intensive care units (ICU), suggests another study.

There is a need to explore the development of specialised, regional post-cardiac arrest care centres modelled on trauma centres, said study co-author Brendan Carr, assistant professor of emergency medicine and epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

These findings were published recently ...

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