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Monroe Karetzky, MD; Mohammad Zubair, MD; Jayesh Parikh, MD
Newark, NJ

Arch Intern Med. 1996;156(2):216.

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The letter from Weil and colleagues reeemphasizes our findings indicating the lack of improvement in survival following closed-chest resuscitation since its introduction 35 years ago. We fully support their contention that available data should lead to constraint, if not to the placement of a moratorium on the use of CPR. In addition, we agree that the time has come to divert funds from the CPR industry, which has come into existence as a result of the "chain-of-survival" public health initiative, to the support of investigation in the science of basic and advanced life support. The proliferation of basic and advanced life-support instruction courses and their transition from cost center to profit center has been allowed to continue without serious challenge on the basis of myth, misinformation, and misapplication, until recently.^1,2

Programs are needed for the gathering of objective evidence as to the efficacy of established interventions and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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