CPR is something everyone, young and old, should learn.
Sudden death is defined as the abrupt or sudden stoppage of the heartbeat and breathing.
Most of these were sudden death. One of the more startling ideas in medicine today is that sudden death can be reversed. More amazing, is that the most important cog in the wheel is not the doctor, but the general public or bystander. Reasearch has shown that patients receiving CPR within 4 minutes of sudden death have 4 times greater change of leaving the hospital than those patients that don't. Recently, you have probably heard about early defibrillation.