Uploaded and shared in Youtube by: TheJAMAReport — When a person experiences a cardiac arrest time is crucial to their survival. Over the last decade the use of automated external defibrillators or A-E-D's have increased patient survival rates in public areas like airports and the workplace. As a result, AED's are also being used with the intention to increase survival rates for hospitalized patients who have cardiac arrest. A new study finds that using an A-E-D in a hospital setting was not associated with improved patient survival. Catherine Dolf has more in this week's JAMA Report.
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Automated external Defibrillators not associated with improved survival for hospitalized Cardiac Arrest Patients
Date: 30 Nov 2010
Uploader: Symposier
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Cardiology
Cardiovascular Surgery
