First Responders Seek Best Treatment in Sudden Cardiac Arrest

From MedPage Today:
NEW YORK, Jan. 11 –Fire departments here and in London are embarked on a cooperative study to determine whether all patients in sudden cardiac arrest should get immediate defibrillation or whether some would benefit from a period of CPR before shock.
They are cooperating on a randomized study of nearly 1,000 cardiac arrest patients [...]