LIFE-SAVING NETWORK: A cellphone-based system that alerts trained volunteers when someone nearby needs CPR can significantly increase the chances of a victim getting immediate help, which then improves the victim's long-term survival rate, says a new study.
Having a bystander perform CPR before a rescue team arrives more than doubles the odds of surviving cardiac arrest, according to one of two new studies from Sweden in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The second report found a cellphone-based system that alerts trained volunteers when someone nearby needs CPR can significantly increase the chances of a victim getting immediate help.
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