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Volume 345:546-547 August 16, 2001 Number 7
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Cardiac Resuscitation

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To the Editor: The review of cardiac resuscitation by Eisenberg and Mengert (April 26 issue)1 summarizes the 2000 guidelines of the American Heart Association and encouraging survival results from Seattle, but it fails to focus on the brain. Since encephalopathy can begin four minutes after the cessation of blood flow in normothermic persons,2 the artificial circulation of oxygenated blood must be initiated by a bystander within seconds of a collapse. Multifaceted, community-based self-training programs may be able to help.3

I disagree with the statement that "Decades of research have failed to find the means to improve brain resuscitation significantly." Two . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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