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To the Editor: We reviewed 113 articles published over a three-decade period to calculate the rate of survival to hospital discharge after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).¹ Long-term survival after in-hospital CPR was 15.2 percent (95 percent confidence interval, 14.8 to 15.6 percent) on a worldwide basis, with 3968 of 26,095 patients surviving to hospital discharge. For U.S. patients, long-term survival was 14.7 percent (95 percent confidence interval, 14.1 to 15.3 percent), with 2026 of 13,766 patients surviving (78 studies). In our analysis, survival varied according to the location of CPR. Survival was better after CPR in the emergency department (23.3 percent; . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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