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To the Editor: Cummins et al. (May 13 issue)¹ are to be complimented on their community-based interventional study to assess the efficacy of out-of-hospital transcutaneous pacing in asystole. They demonstrated a twofold increase in survival in the intervention group but overall judged the treatment to be ineffective, because their observed odds ratio of 2.05 "did not achieve statistical significance." I am reluctant to accept their interpretation.

Only 40 percent of the patients in the intervention group were treated. The authors list the reasons for this low figure, among which were a staggered training schedule and the steady accumulation of negative . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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