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far more than 2% of people who enter vfib and stay there for more than "a few seconds" recover. How many more? If it's less than, say, 60 or 70% or something,
by rosser 14y ago
far more than 2% of people who enter vfib and stay there for more than "a few seconds" recover.
How many more? If it's less than, say, 60 or 70% or something, then I don't think "frequently" is terribly inapt. One-in-three is pretty damned frequent, when the one, you know, dies.
- jemfinch 14y agoYou're bickering a lot throughout this thread with people who have training and education. I was a certified EMT and have vetted these facts with my wife, who's a veterinarian. This shouldn't be a long, drawn out battle. You said something that was incorrect--perhaps even dangerously so, since your misreading of Wikipedia could lead people to respond inappropriately in an emergency. Ventricular fibrillation is not a death sentence, but your claim made it out to be so, and needed to be corrected. At this point I think the facts have been sufficiently cleared up and you're just being unnecessarily defensive and argumentative. Please stop.