Outcomes after cardiac arrest
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WT Longstreth Jr; Sureyya S Dikmen
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Article
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1993
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The simplest, most easily determined, and most easily understood outcomes after cardiac arrest are survival and awakening. Awakening is defined by the patient's being able to follow commands or produce comprehensible speech. Both occur at specific times, thus lending themselves to life-table analyse