"Researchers found that cardiac arrests among children not in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Children's Medical Center Dallas fell by 63 percent after doctors and nurses began to call the cardiac emergency team whenever they saw warning signs that a patient's heart or lungs might stop working."

" doctors and nurses had started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and after a patient had suffered cardiac arrest."

"The findings were expected to be presented May 10 at the American Heart Association's Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Washington, D.C."

""Our goal was to get patients moving to the PICU and a higher level of care sooner, hoping to prevent an arrest. And if we couldn't prevent it, the arrest could be better controlled
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