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Best place for cardiac arrest
Episode 307

Best place for cardiac arrest

During cardiac arrest should you be taken to the hospital or treated at the scene?

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists

September 25, 20145m 16s

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Show Notes

A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops beating and they collapse. It affects 30,000 people every year in the UK.The majority of these occur outside the hospital setting and they're frequently fatal. But how should they be managed - by attempting to resuscitate the victim at the scene, or by rushing them to hospital in an Ambulance?Emergency Medicine specialist Bruce Adams, from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio says bringing the patient in is the best call, but Bristol-based emergency medicine consultant Jonathan Benger disagrees and says that calling an... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Topics

Cardiac arrestmedicineparamedicshospitalheart attackambulanceBruce AdamsJonathan Benger