@TheCatsHouse @rose93676 @ABridgen That if someone becomes so ill from whatever cause that their heart stops then CPR is rarely effective. For statistics on in hospital cardiac arrests here is England data for 2011-13. Overall survival to discharge = 18.4%
Sadly CPR isn’t always as successful as you might think from watching Casualty 🏥 Even on the occasions where people’s hearts are successfully restarted by CPR, less than half of these people will survive to go home from hospital (Nolan et al, 2014) https:/
@noodles_nood @CassieGunnis @ResusCouncilUK UK cardiac arrest data showing those in-hospital figures: https://t.co/MX5mafKjhv & the recent London data on OOH cardiac arrest during the pandemic https://t.co/4XovwGcb0i
@Veritas87288142 @doctorcaldwell @MikeStone2_EoL Some people have ‘cardiac arrest’ where there is very low blood flow, where the heart is becoming ineffective. According to good national evidence, significant brain damage in survivors from in-hospital car