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Different Drummer: A Cardiologist's Memoir of Imperfect Heroes and Care for the Heart
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“from my Linkedin post:
The sudden cardiac arrest of a Buffalo Bills football player, Damar Hamlin reminds me as a cardiologist that widely available, basic life support classes teach the two primary determinants of victim survival:
-time to initiation of effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
-time to electrical defibrillation.
As described in my memoir, Different Drummer;
"Cardiac resuscitation has evolved from physicians cutting open a patient's chest and rhythmically squeezing the victim's heart...to closed-chest compressions at a rate equal to the song Stayin' Alive'...
Defibrillation can now be administered by trained laypeople using an automated external defibrillator, a device that is often available in public facilities...”
― Different Drummer: A Cardiologist's Memoir of Imperfect Heroes and Care for the Heart
The sudden cardiac arrest of a Buffalo Bills football player, Damar Hamlin reminds me as a cardiologist that widely available, basic life support classes teach the two primary determinants of victim survival:
-time to initiation of effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
-time to electrical defibrillation.
As described in my memoir, Different Drummer;
"Cardiac resuscitation has evolved from physicians cutting open a patient's chest and rhythmically squeezing the victim's heart...to closed-chest compressions at a rate equal to the song Stayin' Alive'...
Defibrillation can now be administered by trained laypeople using an automated external defibrillator, a device that is often available in public facilities...”
― Different Drummer: A Cardiologist's Memoir of Imperfect Heroes and Care for the Heart
