AHA Releases 2015 Heart and Stroke Statistics

SUMMARY: New report suggests the incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is 326,200. The average survival rate is 10.6% and survival with good neurologic function is 8.3%. Nearly one in three victims survives when the arrest is witnessed by a bystander.  The annual report includes a chapter on Sudden Cardiac Arrest. According to the report, about