Interesting study by The Lancet hit online on Wednesday. According to the study, the hospitals that performed CPR longer on patients with cardiac arrests have better survival rates.
There is no guideline on how long to perform CPR yet but the study says patients in hospitals that performed lengthened CPR by 9 minutes or longer have higher chance of survival.
It has been the usual belief by doctors that prolonged CPR can damage patients’ brain, but the new study shows that the patients who were revived after longer CPR attempts did not suffer any neurological damage as well as those who were revived by quick CPR.
“One of the most difficult decisions hospital physicians caring for patients who suffer a cardiac is when to stop CPR efforts.” Said Dr. Zachary Goldberger.
Dr. Zachary Goldberger led the research with his colleagues and gathered data from 64,330 patients who suffered cardiac arrest in 435 different U.S. hospitals. With the study, Dr. Goldberger was trying to shed light on the challenging problems doctors face when patients suffer cardiac arrests.
(Source: The Lancet; “Duration of resuscitation efforts and survival after in-hospital CPR”)
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