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A critic's assessment of our approach to cardiac arrest

GH Bardy - New England Journal of Medicine, 2011 - In this issue of the Journal, Weisfeldt et al.1 report that ventricular fibrillation is identified less frequently during sudden cardiac arrest in the home than in public places, even when the arrest is witnessed. The authors surmise that age and coexisting illnesses are responsible and ...