Bystander CPR linked to lower nursing home admission and brain damage after cardiac arrest

(European Society of Cardiology) Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been linked to a 30 percent lower risk of nursing home admission and brain damage in survivors of cardiac arrest outside hospital in research presented at ESC Congress today by Dr. Kristian Kragholm, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Research Centre, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark.