By Mike Heine
Gazette staff
The data proves it.
If you’re going to have a heart attack anywhere in the United States, you’re almost best off having it in Rock or Walworth county, emergency room doctors say.
The area’s emergency medical personnel and first responders, such as police officers and sheriff’s deputies, for nearly three years have been learning a relatively new form of CPR.
Since its introduction in early 2004, survival rates have tripled for people in cardiac arrest who had a “shockable” or quivering heart rhythm. ...
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