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Thankfully, that gentleman was successfully resuscitated despite no bystander CPR, and if you listen carefully, we hope to arm you with the tools to do so similarly. These aren’t your standard arrest patients though, they typically have many fewer comorbidities – so CPR tends to be more successful.
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