Six minutes to save a life

Published: February, 2009

Adapted from the Harvard Heart Letter

Minutes matter when someone collapses from a cardiac arrest.

Every day more than a thousand Americans keel over, felled by a cardiac arrest. Most stricken with this type of attack die. More could be saved with faster emergency care.

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