Have Your Cardiac Arrest at A Casino - Not a Hospital


	Have Your Cardiac Arrest at A Casino - Not a Hospital

Hawkeye_84

1-3-2008 9:19 AM

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Hawkeye_84 says:

This is SO very reassuring!

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misfiring or quivering hearts in U.S. hospitals do not get the
life-saving defibrillator shocks they need within the critical
first two minutes of <SPAN id="lw_1199311703_0" class="yshortcuts">cardiac arrest</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080102/hl_nm/heart_defibrillation_dc_1">The study confirming the importance of the two-minute
period for survival was published in the <SPAN id="lw_1199311703_1" class="yshortcuts">New England Journal of
Medicine</SPAN>, which also ran an accompanying editorial indicating a
person might be better off suffering cardiac arrest in a casino
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from the hospital. But in an editorial accompanying the study,
Leslie Saxon of the <SPAN id="lw_1199311703_4" class="yshortcuts">University of Southern California</SPAN> in Los
Angeles said that survival rate is disappointingly less than
the 50 percent rate among people who collapse in an airport,
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