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Special Report - Special Report - December 06, 2012
Study shows decline in fatal cardiac arrests at hospitals
Data also indicate rate of neurological disability fell over 2000-09 period

Newswise

A new study published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that survival in patients who experience a cardiac arrest in the hospital has increased significantly during the past decade.

The study, led by cardiologists at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, in Iowa City, Iowa, and St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri, both in Kansas City, Mo., also shows that this improvement has been accompanied by lower rates of neurologica...


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