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Heart Pump Improves Survival After Severe Heart Attacks

DAIC

Patients who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with coma and increased risk of brain damage were excluded from the trial. Participants were randomized before, during or up to 12 hours after receiving treatment in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, depending on when cardiogenic shock was diagnosed.