is this just plain cpr or cpr with an AED?
I always thought if you witnessed the arrest (making it OK to shock pronto) then the survival rate is fairly good.
I believe after every minute goes by your chance of survival goes down 10%.
No wonder most of them die LOL as it does take ems some time to arrive.
But good news is if you get a shock delivered within one minute, survival rates are in the 90th percentile!
Yea...good luck having a heat attack that close to one
But lets think about this....lets say you even live ridiculously close to a firehouse and it takes 5 minutes for arrival...thats 50 percent of your survival rate gone....and on top of that approximately 2 minutes of cpr is administered before the first shock...well hell, thats a 20 percent survival rate...not so good LOL.
But I will say this. There is a man I know named Mitch. He has a pacemaker. But he has died and been brought back to life over 8 times now...i shit you not....
This mother fucker seriously has nine lives. Several times were on a patient bed in the hospital where he has even been declared dead and he still came back. Too bad he continues to smoke crack...Maybe he wouldnt have to go through this shit so often....by the way this is a true story.
another little stat I learned from class a couple years ago is that survival rate of a drowned person in very cold water is higher than warm water....which actually makes sense kinda. But you would have thought that hypothermia would only decrease the chance of survival.
POINT IN CASE: If you're going to have a heart attack, do it within one minute of an AED