In fact, only 3% of people are returning to normal life after cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Not long ago, a show about doctors and their difficult work was very popular - "Ambulance", "House" and so on. N. If such a show on the story that something goes wrong, the patient stops breathing or his heart stops beating, the doctor immediately begin the procedure for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). On the patient starts breathing normally again, and his heart back to a normal rhythm. If compile statistics on the basis of the show, we find that 75% of people survive, and 67% of them go home to normal life.

Unfortunately, real life is not so simple: if everything is done correctly, the doctor can often break the ribs to the patient, but to save his life, but not for long. According to research conducted in the US in 2010 was only 8% underwent CPR patients lived longer than a month, and only 3% subsequently able to live a normal life. As a result, most of these people die from cardiac arrest.

via factroom.ru