The Hidden Harms of CPR

The brutal procedure can save lives, but only in particular cases. Why has it become a default treatment?

Although CPR has become synonymous with medical heroism, nearly eighty-five per cent of those who receive it in a hospital die, their last moments marked by pain and chaos.

But it is an open secret in medicine that CPR is both brutal and rarely effective.

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