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Sports medicine stats: Early defibrillation

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Early defibrillation is the strongest determinant of Electrocardiogramsurvival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, including cardiac events in sports. Survival rates decline 7% to 10% with every minute that defibrillation is delayed.

Source: Sports Health, November/December 2013

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