Un-extraordinary measures: Stats show CPR often falls flat
(CNN) -- In his 20 years of practicing emergency
medicine, Dr. David Newman says, he remembers every patient who has
walked out of his hospital alive after receiving CPR.
It's not because Newman
has an extraordinary memory or because reviving a patient whose heart
has stopped sticks in his mind more than other types of trauma. It's
because the number of individuals who survive CPR is so small.
In fact, out of the
hundreds of CPR patients who have come to St. Luke's Hospital in New
York, Newman recalls no more than one individual a year making a full
recovery.
Since it was introduced
to American physicians in 1960, cardiopulmonary resuscitation has become
a staple of emergency medicine. Between 2011 and 2012, more than 14
million people in 60 countries were trained in CPR administration,
according to the American Heart Association (PDF).
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