CPR has an extremely low rate of success
Although medical shows may make it seem like correctly-performed CPR will always revive the patient, the odds aren’t in the patient’s favor.
The most recent data from The American Heart Association showed that in 2016, the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who were given CPR was only 12% out of over 350,000 cases.
In a hospital, if CPR was conducted by a professional, the rate jumped to 24.8%.