Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Analysis
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Mark L. DeBard
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Article
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1981
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Elsevier Science
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English
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A six-year series encompassing 1,073 cases of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at St. Elizabeth Medical Center (SEMC) was analyzed and compared with 13,266 hospital CPR cases in the literature. SEMC had a CPR success rate of 56% and a survival-to-discharge rate of 24%, compared with 39% and 17%,