“In 2010 a review of 79 studies, involving almost 150,000 patients, found that the overall rate of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had barely changed in thirty years. It was 7.6%.”
TV shows CPR working 70% of the time. Real out-of-hospital survival is 7.6%, and 2.4% for patients over 90. Only 2% of cardiac arrest patients over 85 survive without significant brain damage. Television sold the public a miracle, and the frail elderly pay for it with broken ribs at the end of their lives.