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John J. Gregory, MD; Dorothea Dunn, RN
Overlook Hospital Summit, NJ

JAMA. 1989;261(11):1579-1580.

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To the Editor. —

We read with interest the report by Taffet and collegues¹ concerning their experience with in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the Houston (Tex) Veterans Administration Medical Center. Review of the literature and our own experience lead us to believe, as the authors suggest, that their results are not representative of those in many acute-care hospitals. They reported a 6.7% survival for all patients (preponderantly male) and a 0% survival to hospital discharge in patients 70 years of age or older.

A 2-year experience (January 1, 1986, to December 31, 1987) with in-hospital resuscitation in our 590-bed community hospital is more favorable, as shown in Table 2.

Our overall survival rate was 15.5%: 24.5% for patients younger than age 70 years and 12.7% for patients aged 70 years and older. Of the groups represented in Table 2, survival rate was lowest for men aged 70 years and older, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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