Few survive cardiac arrest, even with hospital CPR

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Wed, 07/01/2009 - 15:02

You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes....


 

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