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To the Editor: Although Stiell and colleagues (Aug. 12 issue)¹ state that the Ontario Prehospital Advanced Life Support (OPALS) Study found no improvement in the rate of survival among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as a result of the addition of "advanced life support" interventions provided by paramedics (and Callans concurred in the accompanying Perspective article),² these findings cannot be generalized to all emergency-medical-services systems. The authors suggest that definitive care is "advanced life support." I would submit that definitive care must be viewed as definitive therapy for a patient's underlying conditions. Myocardial infarction is a common cause of cardiac . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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