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Cardiac advice

AT least 540,000 people die of cardiac arrest in Chinese mainland every year, and public awareness lags, medical experts said yesterday. The five minutes after cardiac arrest is the golden period for treatment.

Doctors suggested at-risk people like those with heart failure to install an implantable defibrillator to treat sudden heart arrest.



 

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