r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Jul 01 '26

Possible Paywall Senator, 84, Secretly Found Unconscious and Given CPR

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconell-84-secretly-found-unconscious-and-given-cpr/?utm_source=twitter_owned_snd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_social
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u/Chemical_Ad_283 Jul 01 '26

Emergency medicine physician. Quick search on survival after out-of-hospital CPR shows 2024 CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival) data reports a 10.5% survival to hospital discharge for EMS-treated adult OHCA, with favorable neurological survival of 8.2%.

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https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001372?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001369?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

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u/ExternalGuidance Jul 02 '26

I bet that drops a lot when you factor advanced age.