Sudden Death Is Still the Healthcare System’s Friend

In an article published in the January 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers report that hospitalized patients who have cardiac arrest (sudden loss of cardiac function due to the onset of a heart arrhythmia known as ventricular fibrillation) are often not receiving defibrillation (an electrical shock delivered to the chest) within [...]

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