Discrepancy in perceived appropriate and desired resuscitation durations between physicians and laypersons in cardiac arrest patients
Yuko Tanabe, Takeshi Namba, Shoichi Maeda, Mitsuaki Nishikimi, Eri Ishikawa, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Nobuaki Shime · 2025
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Yuko Tanabe and co-authors uncover a gap between doctors and the public on how long to keep trying to restart a heart in this 2025 study. When resuscitation should stop is a judgment families and physicians must somehow share. The team surveyed both sides across Japan.
Doctors were far more likely than laypeople to call thirty minutes or more appropriate. The gap yawned widest for children: for the youngest patients, eighty-five percent of physicians backed the longer effort against twenty-seven percent of the public. The authors read the split as two different frames, clinical experience against personal hope. Naming the gap, they argue, gives real conversations about stopping a shared starting point, and could ground future rules on when resuscitation ends.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yuko Tanabe, Takeshi Namba, Shoichi Maeda, Mitsuaki Nishikimi, Eri Ishikawa, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Nobuaki Shime |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 9 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |