Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ornato, Joseph P. (Editor), Peberdy, Mary Ann (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2005.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Despite more than 50 years of medical progress since the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), only 1 out of 5 adults survive in-hospital cardiac arrest, and fewer than 1 in 10 survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. In Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, leading clinicians and scientists-...