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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by femto on Monday April 07, 2025 @08:35PM (#43617290)
Related, the ambulance system where I live has been running a clinical trail using a mobile ECMO unit (Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) [1,2]. An invasive procedure that oxygenates and pumps blood. It's boosted survival rate for those who are not responding to CPR (15-20 minutes duration) from 3% to 28%. The general CPR survival rate is an exponential looking curve: starting around 20%, reducing to 10% at 10 minutes and 3% at 20 minutes [3].

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-07/nsw-ambulance-ecmo-tr...

[2] https://www.nsw.gov.au/media-releases/mobile-cardiac-treatme...

[3] https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-076019

Edit: The numbers in [3] are optimistic, as they are for in-hospital CPR, not out-of-hospital CPR.

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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by shepherdjerred on Monday April 07, 2025 @10:59PM (#43617985)
The Pitt, a recent ER show, features ECMO :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31938062/

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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by airstrike on Monday April 07, 2025 @11:02PM (#43617999)
Great show
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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by bearsnowstorm on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:06PM (#43617429)
Similar program in Melbourne [1] https://sjtrem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13049-023...

(There are similar programs around the world with different models of care, notably in Paris, Albuquerque, the Netherlands and Regensburg, Germany).

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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by femto on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:53PM (#43617656)
A paper with data on the locations referred to by bearsnowstorm: https://intjem.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12245-023...
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Re:Cardiac arrest deaths among marathoners have decreased, s... by iancmceachern on Monday April 07, 2025 @09:36PM (#43617593)
Ecmo is amazing, and has so much more potential if made available in this way, at the front lines of care.
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