Rick Santorum - he's saying that US school pupils should learn CPR instead of agitating for gun control.
...and the mortality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from gunshot wound is??? I suspect >98% but will check...
Isn't the mortality rate horrendous for pretty much everything except things like cold-water drowning and electric shock, where the heart stops in an otherwise functional body?
Yes. Looking for scholarly references, I see there was a strong 'don't bother' meme until recently.
I have just gone through our company H+S induction programme( big plant handling phenols and chlorine gas). One of the stories told was how the site first aiders actually saved a guy who had a full cardiac arrest in the middle of the factory area , even though he was “dead” on several occasions . He is now able to talk about it but will probably never work again.
So it is possible but quite rare, hence the push for more defibrillators out in the community.