Cardiac arrest resuscitation: Passive oxygen flow better than assisted ventilation

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 08:35 in Health & Medicine

Arizona researchers have added another piece to the mounting body of evidence that suggests during resuscitation efforts to treat patients in cardiac arrest, "passive ventilation" significantly increases survival rates, compared to the widely practiced "assisted ventilation." The study, published in an online edition of Annals of Emergency Medicine, compared the numbers of patients who ha

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