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January 4, 2008
Hospitals Dangerously Slow in Treating Heart Attacks
It is safer to have a heart attack in an airport or casino than in a hospital.
Why? One reason is that many hospitals still rely on old-fashioned defibrillators rather than the newer ones found in public places. The new ones are fully automated, faster and easy to use.
Chances of surviving a heart attack are nearly 40 percent if you are defibrillated within two minutes of the attack--but fall to 22 percent if it takes longer. Hospital staffs in the study took longer than two minutes in nearly one third of all cases.
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