Initiative underway to improve CPR nationwide

摘要

Only 46 percent of the more than 350,000 people who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get immediate help before a professional arrives, according to the American Heart Association. To improve these numbers, the National Academies of Medicine conducted the Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival: A Time to Act study of the system of response to cardiac arrest in the United States to identify opportunities for increasing patient survival.