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Dr. Stephan Mayer: “CPR Survival Rates Vary Greatly by City-Big Concern”

  • The Seattle Times
  • Seattle, Washington
  • (December 10, 2015)

Since the 1960s, cardiopulmonary resuscitation has been the go-to approach to reanimate a stopped heart. There have been improvements since then, but remain underused in practice. As a result, survival rates after cardiac arrest vary as much as 500 percent across the country. “You should only be feeling for a pulse for 10 seconds, while people fumble around trying to feel a pulse for one minute or more,” said Stephan Mayer, MD, a professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director, Neurocritical Care, Mount Sinai Health System. Read More