Resuscitate!: How Your Community Can Improve Survival from Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Contents

Foreword by Roger D. White, M.D. ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Guide to Terminology xvii one How We Die Suddenly 1 two A History of Resuscitation 19 three Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death 44 four A Profile of Sudden Cardiac Arrest 58 five Who Will Live and Who Will Die? 77 six Location, Location, Location: Best Places to Have a Cardiac Arrest 120 seven What Can Your Community Do? 150 eight A Completed Life 160 nine The Paradox of Technology 168 ten A Plan of Action 179 appendix 1 Incidence and Prevalence of Coronary Artery Disease and Cardiac Arrest 207 appendix 2 Web Site: www.survivecardiacarrest.org 209 appendix 3 Web Site: www.learncpr.org 210 appendix 4 Web Site: www.learnaed.org 211 appendix 5 The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium 212 Notes 215 Index 243 Contents ...