Strange but true. A US study shows those who go into cardiac arrest are more likely to survive if it happens in a casino or airport than it they're in hospital.
The reason? Casinos and airports, at least in America, are well stocked with defibfrilators and staff trained to use them. That means it's more likely, once you're noticed, that you'll get the paddles within the critical two minute zone. And when it comes to being noticed, you'll stick out like a sore thumb when you collapse on the casino floor and you have less chance of being noticed in a hospital. From the Los Angeles Times:
"It is probably fair to say that most patients assume -- unfortunately, incorrectly -- that a hospital would be the best place to survive a cardiac arrest," USC cardiologist Leslie Saxon wrote in an editorial accompanying the report.
The odds of survival are even lower in hospitals with fewer than 250 beds, and on nights and weekends, according to the study by Dr. Paul S. Chan of Saint Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Brahmajee K. Nallamothu of the University of Michigan.
The report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that those who receive defibrilation within two minutes have almost twice the survival rate of those who don't.
The reason? Casinos and airports, at least in America, are well stocked with defibfrilators and staff trained to use them. That means it's more likely, once you're noticed, that you'll get the paddles within the critical two minute zone. And when it comes to being noticed, you'll stick out like a sore thumb when you collapse on the casino floor and you have less chance of being noticed in a hospital. From the Los Angeles Times:
"It is probably fair to say that most patients assume -- unfortunately, incorrectly -- that a hospital would be the best place to survive a cardiac arrest," USC cardiologist Leslie Saxon wrote in an editorial accompanying the report.
The odds of survival are even lower in hospitals with fewer than 250 beds, and on nights and weekends, according to the study by Dr. Paul S. Chan of Saint Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Mo., and Dr. Brahmajee K. Nallamothu of the University of Michigan.
The report in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that those who receive defibrilation within two minutes have almost twice the survival rate of those who don't.
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