Why Don’t Doctors Recognize Cardiac Arrest?
August 8, 2016
(The Atlantic) – It’s odd to think that doctors and nurses could be duped by such a common medical emergency; according to the American Heart Association, there were 209,000 in-hospital cardiac-arrest cases in 2013. But clinical researchers find that too many people in medicine are hesitant to believe a patient is in cardiac arrest. And not all are aware of the most effective methods of resuscitation. While critical-care physicians often have plenty of practice resuscitating patients, other doctors, like primary-care physicians, have relatively little.