Prolonged CPR Holds Benefits, a Study Shows (Published 2012)Staff members at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn in 2010 trying to revive a patient who suffered a cardiac arrest.Credit...Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times When a hospital patient goes into cardiac arrest, one of the most difficult questions facing the medical team is how long to continue cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Now a new study involving hundreds of hospitals suggests that man
