> It's not an area where I'd expect more to automatically equal better.

It really is. I've been to over a dozen cardiac arrests where the patient was surrounding by a gaggle of able-bodied adults, doing nothing except looking confused.

Speed, even over quality, is of the essence: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21736-cardiac...

Even shitty CPR is better than no CPR.

This is not opinion it is evidence-based medicine.

https://www.ems1.com/ems-products/cpr-resuscitation/articles...