
CPR’s true survival rate is lower than many people think : Shots
SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra “Nurse refuses to perform CPR,” read the caption on an ABC newscast in California. “911 dispatcher’s pleas ignored.” Several days earlier, an elderly woman at a senior living facility had gone into cardiac arrest. The dispatcher instructed an employee to perform CPR, or…