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MILWAUKEE -- A Medical College of Wisconsin research team, led by emergency physicians Tom P. Aufderheide and Ronald G. Pirrallo, has found that adding a simple device called the ResQ-Valve to standard CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) in cardiac arrest patients can double their survival rate long enough to be admitted to an Intensive Care Unit. The results of their study will be presented at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions on Nov. 8, 2004, in New Orleans. The abstract has received the 2004 Best Critical Care Abstract Award from the AHA.
Since the outlook for people suffering cardiac arrest is poor, keeping them alive until they can enter an intensive care unit for treatment is …