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Martin L. Evers, MD; Anthony Chiaramida, MD; Salvatore Chiaramida, MD; Lynda Mansfield, RN, BSN, MPH
Raritan Bay Medical Center Perth Amboy, NJ

JAMA. 1989;261(11):1579.

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To the Editor.—

The article "In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation" by Taffet et al¹ in the October 14 issue of JAMA addresses the problem of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the Houston (Tex) Veterans Administration Medical Center. They report an in-hospital mortality after CPR of 71.4% for all patients older than age 70 years (55/77 CPR efforts) at 24 hours, with none discharged alive. They further report that for those patients younger than age 70 years, 61.5% (198/322) were dead within 24 hours and that 8.4% of all patients who received CPR were discharged alive.

This article prompted us at Raritan Bay Medical Center, Perth Amboy, NJ, to review our data in reference to CPR. For the 9 months of January through September 1988 we had a total of 247 patients who received CPR, with a total of 279 CPR efforts. Our population included males and females. The results of our computerized . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by Drummond Rennie, MD, Deputy Editor (West).

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