Tagged: EMS

1:21pm

Thu March 3, 2011
Emergency Medicine

If your heart stops, be in Seattle (but help's coming for the rest)

Credit Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP

If your heart suddenly stops beating, your chances of getting revived are better in King County than in the rest of Washington.

The Seattle area has one of the highest survival rates from cardiac arrest in the country. Now, a new campaign in Washington aims to boost survival from cardiac arrest by 50-percent in the rest of the state. 

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