Cardiac arrest in hospital can be prevented: report

Cardiac arrest in hospital can be prevented: report: A third of cardiac arrests and resuscitation attempts in hospital could be prevented if doctors assessed patients better, a report has found. The Daily Telegraph

NHS 'too quick to resuscitate': Frail elderly patients are suffering "undignified and distressing" deaths because hospitals wrongly try to resuscitate them, a watchdog says. BBC News

You can find the full report, exec. summary and audit tool on the NCEPOD site here.