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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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George Lithgow

A&E just as effective as specialist centres for cardiac arrest – study

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Ambulances should take patients whose hearts have stopped to the closest emergency department rather than to a specialist centre, a study has revealed.

A randomised trial carried out in the UK found no difference in the survival of resuscitated patients taken by ambulance to a specialist cardiac arrest centre compared with those delivered to the geographically closest emergency department.

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