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Saturday, March 31, 2007
another article again from Reader's Digest Aprill 2007:
"Fewer Shocks Better for Cardiac Victims"
New thinking on cardiac arrest resuscitation is saving more lives by recommending less use of the defibrillator and longer stretches of CPR. Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that a single shock from a defibrillator followed by two minutes of CPR improves survival rates by 13 per cent. "A shock is needed to restore heart rhythm, but CPR helps the muscular beating of the heart and pushes blood into circulation," says study author Dr Thomas Rea.
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