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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe There is no good place to suffer cardiac arrest. But if you do, a hospital is obviously one location where quick treatment is likely to
increase the chances of recovery. As described in two papers in _The New England Journal of Medicine_, certain casinos in Nevada and Mississippi, and some airlines, also make recovery a
better bet. The type of cardiac arrest concerned is that caused by ventricular fibrillation, in which contraction of heart-muscle fibres becomes uncoordinated. The key to treatment is the
use of defibrillating equipment, and swiftly: with each minute that passes, the possibility of recovery falls rapidly. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
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