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Compression only CPR improves survival with good brain function
December 10, 2012
Study Highlights:
A new Japanese study shows that early compression-only CPR, without rescue breathing, kept more people alive with good brain function after they had a sudden cardiac arrest.
Survival rates of more than 40 percent were noted when cardiac arrests were observed, bystanders provided early compression-only CPR, and an electric shock was [...]
Shockable cardiac arrests are more common in public than home
Comprehensive NIH study helps explain discrepancy in survival rates between cardiac arrests in public and at home