Chances Of Surviving Cardiac Arrest Depend On Where Patients Are Treated

Friday, January 9, 2009 - 12:14 in Health & Medicine

Patients in large, urban, and teaching hospitals are more likely to survive compared to those in small, often rural, non-academic hospitals, according to a new study published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine. A second study, published in Resuscitation, suggests that patients who are cared for in the highest volume intensive care units after cardiac arrest are also most apt to survive.

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