More children are surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest than they did one decade ago, according to a University of Iowa-led study of data from hospitals using resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association.
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Children who had in-hospital cardiac arrest in 2009, were three times more likely to survive than children who had cardiac arrests in 2000. In addition, among surviving children, the risk of severe brain damage appears to have remained unchanged during this period. Story
A new study published Nov. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that patients who have a cardiac arrest in the hospital today are more likely to survive and to avoid neurological disability than they were 10 years ago. Story
While traveling abroad in 2002, finance major Amanda Richter was hospitalized with life-threatening bacterial meningitis. She returned to the UI that fall in a wheelchair, but after major surgeries and grafts, she can now walk again with a cane. “That's life. Story from: Chicago Daily Herald
