Bystander Efforts and 1-Year Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Bystander Efforts and 1-Year Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest – New England Journal of Medicine (Link to abstract – $ for full-text)

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Commentary: Bystander CPR and Defibrillation Are Associated with Better Long-Term Outcomes – Journal Watch (free)

In patients who have initially survived after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who were submitted to bystander CPR and defibrillation had lower risk of brain damage, nursing home admission and death after one year when compared to patients who survived but were not submitted to bystander CPR.