In the second report, Benjamin S. Abella, M.D., M.Phil., of the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether well-trained hospital staff perform CPR ...
More than 209,000 in-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the U.S. with survival rates at about 26% from adult in-hospital cardiac arrest. For decades, the CPR training standard for healthcare ...
Hospital inpatients have better prospects of surviving a cardiac arrest in large hospitals and well-resourced wards, and daytime cardiac arrests are also associated with better chances of survival, a ...
BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by health care responders is often suboptimal during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Mechanical CPR devices have been promoted as a strategy to ...