Cardiac Arrest in Public versus at Home

Cardiac Arrest in Public versus at Home Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2011;364:1674-1676. In the third letter to the Editor (page 1675), beginning “Many questions . . . ,” the second sentence should have read, “The widespread awareness and acceptance of CPR are the product of national ignorance of its downside, majority prevalence of permanent brain damage outcomes among the 8.4% of cardiac arrest victims who do survive CPR (about 25,000 each year),” rather than “. . . national ignorance of CPR's downside: the broad range of outcomes of permanent brain damage among 8.4% of the 25,000 who survive each year.” We regret the error. The article is correct at NEJM.org.