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Heart Attack In A Casino is Safer Than In The Hospital

Dan Frith

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Posted by Dan FrithJanuary 08, 2008 6:46 AM

Tags: Medical Malpractice

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Pretty outrageous isn't it! Can the above title be true? Yes, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.

If you have a heart attack in an airport, or even a casino, there is a 50% chance you survive, compared to just one third if your heart attack takes place at a US hospital, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It seems that all too often patients do not get life-saving defibrillation within the crucial two minutes when in hospital.

The researchers explain that if you get defibrillation within two minutes at a hospital (following a heart attack) your chances of survival are about double, at 40%, compared to 22% if you don't. Approximately three-quarters of a million people have a life-threatening alteration in heart rhythms in US hospitals, while another 250,000 or so experience them outside hospitals.

For more information on this subject, please refer to the section on Medical Malpractice and Negligent Care.

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