The New England journal of medicine
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N. Engl. J. Med.
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Editorial Comment
The epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in black Americans.
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Comparative Study
Outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac or respiratory arrest in children.
Among adults who have a cardiac arrest outside the hospital, the survival rate is known to be poor. However, less information is available on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among children. This study was performed to determine the survival rate among children after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and to identify predictors of survival. ⋯ These results suggest that out-of-hospital cardiac arrest among children has a very poor prognosis, especially when efforts at resuscitation continue for longer than 20 minutes and require more than two doses of epinephrine.