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29. How to Save a Stranger’s Heart

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Do You Know How to Do Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation?

When someone has a cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is stopped pumping blood for any number of reasons, you can't really waste any time. How could we use this new thing that everyone was carrying around in another that challenges our preconceived notions? We're actually trying to take a simpler approach. The first thing any one should do is call nine one one. And then ideally you'd start administering cardio pulmonary resuscitation, or c p r. Even better, if there's an automated external defriberator, or a e d, near byou use that.

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