Society Of Hospital Medicine
Duration of CPR almost twice as long when started before arrival at hospital.(Cardiovascular Medicine)(cardiopulmonary resuscitation)MacNeil, Jane Salodof PHOENIX, ARIZ. -- Despite an American Heart Association recommendation that cardiopulmonary resuscitation stop if patients do not respond within 30 minutes, a review of one emergency department's experience found the average effort lasted significantly longer.
Mean total resuscitation time was 66 minutes when cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) began before the patient arrived at the hospital, and 36 minutes if CPR was started in the emergency department, emergency physicians Lara Wagner, M.D., and Jared Strote, M.D., reported at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Critical ...
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