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Originally Posted by skyking
As a former paramedic I highly endorse this program but the results are probably a bit overstated. According to the American Heart Association the national average for resuscitation following arrest averaged about 9% for the past two years. The "in hospital" survival following sudden arrest was 23%. Lazenby claims over 40% for the Villages. Every hospital has fulltime "code teams" trained physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists, responding with all the medications and resuscitative equipment available only in a hospital. Doubtful that volunteer residents with AEDs would be twice as successful.
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I don't think TVs numbers include what goes on in a hospital if a person has a heart attack. I believe these numbers are based on response time when EMT is involved and when you have neighborhood response getting there sooner. I thought I heard the response time in our neighborhood is well under 2 minutes. I am not a medical person and possibly have no idea what I am talking about but believe this is correct.