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Must cardiopulmonary resuscitation be carried out only under certain conditions?

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CPR can be done in a hospital with drugs and special equipment or as a first-aid technique. In either case it is done with great urgency to avoid the brain damage or death that result from four to six minutes without oxygen.

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