Despite defibrillators and other modern gear, survival rates after cardiac arrest are around 30% inside hospitals and 5% or so outside of them.

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Nor, despite the increase in average lifespan in the rich world over the past few centuries, is post-reproductive survival a modern phenomenon.

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We travel back seven decades to the Hindenburg crash in 1937 and we see how modern wartime medicine has increased survival rates for injured troops.

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Fortunately modern medicine, for all its foibles, performs extraordinary feats every day and survival rates for all kinds of life-threatening health problems are better than ever.

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