Institutionalized Ways We Kill People
ecthompsonmd
January 8, 2008
A recent New York Times story reported that many people die in hospitals from cardiac arrest because hospital personnel do not reach them in time. And, also, because they are black and/or poor. From the story— In nearly a third of cases of sudden cardiac arrest in the hospital, the staff takes too long to respond, increasing the risk of brain damage and death, a new study finds. In the real world, doctors and nurses do not always run fast enough. Expert guidelines say the shock should be given within two minutes after the heart stops, but the study found that
