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Episode 3: Flatliners
Review
In this episode the 1990 Horror film “Flatliners” serves as a perfect example of all the ways Hollywood misrepresents CPR and defibrillation and their use as lifesaving techniques.
References
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1405796#t=article
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300957215000635
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/128/4/417.short
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/132/18_suppl_2/S414.short
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258134/
http://cpr.heart.org/AHAECC/CPRAndECC/AboutCPRFirstAid/CPRFactsAndStats/UCM_475748_CPR-Facts-and-Stats.jsp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/more-people-are-stepping-up-to-perform-cpr-and-its-saving-lives_us_55afcd3fe4b07af29d5722fd
http://www.nsc.org/learn/Safety-Training/Pages/AEDs-Could-Save-40,000-Lives.aspx
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/results_of_definitive_study_are_in_lives_are_saved_when_defibrillators_are_placed_in_large_public_spaces
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199606133342406#t=articleTop
http://www.life1st.com/files/CPR-Legal_and_Ethical.pdf
https://eccguidelines.heart.org/index.php/circulation/cpr-ecc-guidelines-2/
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Review
In this episode the 1990 Horror film “Flatliners” serves as a perfect example of all the ways Hollywood misrepresents CPR and defibrillation and their use as lifesaving techniques.
References
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1405796#t=article
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300957215000635
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/128/4/417.short
http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/132/18_suppl_2/S414.short
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258134/
http://cpr.heart.org/AHAECC/CPRAndECC/AboutCPRFirstAid/CPRFactsAndStats/UCM_475748_CPR-Facts-and-Stats.jsp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/more-people-are-stepping-up-to-perform-cpr-and-its-saving-lives_us_55afcd3fe4b07af29d5722fd
http://www.nsc.org/learn/Safety-Training/Pages/AEDs-Could-Save-40,000-Lives.aspx
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/results_of_definitive_study_are_in_lives_are_saved_when_defibrillators_are_placed_in_large_public_spaces
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199606133342406#t=articleTop
http://www.life1st.com/files/CPR-Legal_and_Ethical.pdf
https://eccguidelines.heart.org/index.php/circulation/cpr-ecc-guidelines-2/