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[dave3189]

Good discussion here, I have to admit! Great, looks like I'm spending Saturday afternoon researching the validity of cardiac survival stats!

 

[NomadicMedic]

Interesting fact; The ROC (Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium) examined out of hospital cardiac arrest survival. The study, published in JAMA in 2008, showed the survival rate in Seattle was only 16.3%

Researchers found a total of 20,520 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, with a 4.6% overall survival rate

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/122964.php

There's some good stuff to read here, if you're really interested.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/conten...ts&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

Yeah, Seattle has impressive Citizen CPR training. (It's somewhere around 65% of the population. Not too shabby.) But, Medic One doesn't do anything that the rest of us don't, when it comes to resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients. Adding an ITD, Auto-Pulse, hypothermia, or whatever else you may have in your drug box, we're all in the same boat.

The researchers noted that little improvement has been made considering survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the past 30 years (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/24)