
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">On Apr 13, 2013, at 11:54, Drew McDermott <<a href="mailto:drewmcdermott2002@gmail.com">drewmcdermott2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div style="">CPR breaks your ribs, has a very low success rate, and even when successful, your quality</div><div style="">of life post-successful-CPR is horrible.</div></blockquote><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><snip></span><br><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div style="">Here's more info:</div></blockquote><div><br></div>The survey presented is specifically:<br><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Preferences of physician-participants for treatment given a scenario of irreversible brain injury without terminal illness"</span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That survey result isn't a surprise and is fairly reasonable.</span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Aren't the outcomes for younger people without significant prior medical problems a lot better than average? </span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It is my understanding that quality of life post-CPR is related to pre-CPR quality of life. In other words, if you were otherwise healthy pre-CPR then your odds are pretty decent, but if you were in poor health beforehand then you're probably going to be in bad or worse shape.</span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/more-on-cpr-for-the-elderly/">http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/more-on-cpr-for-the-elderly/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>