AEDs in Schools Prove Effective (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Emergency Medicine  Tue, 07/28/2009 - 13:03

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. (MedPage Today) -- The majority of individuals who had a cardiac arrest in a high school survived to hospital discharge if an automated external defibrillator (AED) was on site, researchers found.


 

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