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Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, has cautioned against drawing conclusions without additional medical information but said that patients who require CPR following a cardiac arrest often face a prolonged recovery.
“If it does work and we can restart their heart and their heart is beating spontaneously, that begins a long road to recovery, even for the healthiest of patients,” Faust said on Thursday night’s edition of Erin Burnett Outfront on CNN.
“So when you have a person who is elderly and who has other underlying medical conditions, it‘s really concerning,” he added.
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