NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When older hospitalized patients need revival by CPR, more than half are likely to die before they are discharged, according to a new study. The odds of surviving long ...

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If you were to have needed CPR, the best place you could be is in a hospital, right? Not exactly. A new study found that few people survive cardiac arrest after CPR, even in the hospital. Out of the ...

Refractory cardiac arrest patients brought to hospital with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can survive with good brain function, according to research in nearly 4,000 patients. Refractory ...

A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in hospitals shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. The proportion of hospital deaths after CPR rose, and the proportion of patients ...

Nearly a quarter of patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) survive to discharge if CPR quickly results in return to spontaneous circulation, Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...

On TV it always seems clear and simple. A patient in the hospital goes into cardiac arrest and the medical team springs into action. After a few tense moments of furious activity, and only after all ...

Patients receiving dialysis have higher rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and worse long-term survival after discharge than other patients, according to a national cohort study published ...