Clinical Geriatrics

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was developed to treat individuals who have a sudden unexpected cardiac arrest due to a heart attack, drug overdose, hypothermia, drowning accident, or other reversible condition. However, CPR is now widely used to treat arrests in people with severe underlying illnesses and poor overall likelihood of survival. The purpose of this article is to discuss patient and physician attitudes regarding CPR and survival from CPR, and to examine published general and disease-specific survival rates from in-hospital CPR. Through this, we aim to aid physicians in having