Television portrayals tend to exaggerate the success of lifesaving measures such as CPR.

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Medical dramas often show health care providers successfully reviving patients with CPR far more often than actually happens in real life. A physician-authored study that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association found 67% of patients in medical dramas who receive CPR survive, compared with only 2% to 30% of real patients

Television Portrayals Tend to Exaggerate the Success of Lifesaving Measures