Are cardiac arrest outcomes improving?

Essential Critical Care Podcast

Mar 7, 202318:41Science & Medicine

This podcast comes to you from the 2022 LIVES Conference in Paris Sudden cardiac arrest in the community has historically had a poor prognosis. Improvements in prehospital care and post resuscitation interventions have r...

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