The nurse is preparing to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a patient found unresponsive and not breathing. What should the nurse keep in mind regarding the survival rate of patients who receive CPR in the hospital?
a. Most patients survive after receiving CPR in the hospital.
b. About 5% of patients survive who receive CPR in the hospital.
c. Less than 1% of patients survive who receive CPR in the hospital.
d. Between 10% to 15% of patients survive who receive CPR in the hospital.
ANS: D
Only 10% to 15% of patients who receive CPR in a hospital survive. One reason for the low survival rate is that CPR must begin within 3 to 5 minutes of collapse. The most successful cases are ones in which CPR plus an automatic external defibrillator (AED) is used within 3 to 5 minutes of collapse. Patients who are not in a hospital and who survive after CPR have a 5% chance of living for one year. Success of CPR in a hospital setting depends greatly on the patient's age. The best rate of CPR success is 10% in the age 40-to-59-year group. In patients over the age of 80 years, the CPR success rate declines to 3%. In patients over the age of 90 years, it declines further to 1%.
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