TY - JOUR
T1 - Prehospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Acute Myocardial Infarction
AU - Crampton, Richard S.
AU - Aldrich, Robert F.
AU - Stillerman, Roy
AU - Gascho, Joseph
PY - 1972/6/15
Y1 - 1972/6/15
N2 - To the Editor: The report by Lemire and Johnson1 of survival from inhospital cardiac arrest in 19.1 per cent of attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is encouraging and challenges all physicians to become skillful resuscitators as pointed out by Kravitz and Killip.2 Moreover, of 1204 hospitalized patients in whom CPR was attempted, 125 (10.4 per cent) survivors proved to have coronary heart disease and constituted the largest group (54.3 per cent) of inhospital survivors of cardiac arrest. We should like to point out that CPR undertaken outside the hospital, particularly in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), has. No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
AB - To the Editor: The report by Lemire and Johnson1 of survival from inhospital cardiac arrest in 19.1 per cent of attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is encouraging and challenges all physicians to become skillful resuscitators as pointed out by Kravitz and Killip.2 Moreover, of 1204 hospitalized patients in whom CPR was attempted, 125 (10.4 per cent) survivors proved to have coronary heart disease and constituted the largest group (54.3 per cent) of inhospital survivors of cardiac arrest. We should like to point out that CPR undertaken outside the hospital, particularly in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), has. No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197206152862414
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197206152862414
M3 - Letter
C2 - 5024465
AN - SCOPUS:0015509104
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 286
SP - 1320
EP - 1321
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 24
ER -