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that is an interesting chart ------------------------------------ http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/124/21_MeetingAbstracts/A18041 - abstract of the study - approx 2010 in Japan ------------------------------------ This tells me - 1. If you have a cardiac arrest, your odds are no better than 30% of a good survival 2. If a AED is used quickly - or if CPR is done quickly - within maybe 5 minutes - you boost your odds of survival from 15% to 30% - kinda 3. This pretty much confirms previous info that we have seen - cardiac arrest is a drastic event - survival is tough Overall, I would say that a rapid response is better than a slow response - unless hundreds of people are killed each year by speeding emergency vehicles (which does not happen) - or if the cost of emergency services is extremely excessive (which it does not seem to be) What do you think? Should all 911 services be shut down? Should we go back to bucket brigades, vigilantes, and the friendly neighborhood mortician? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
