More from Ben Sherwood’s book The Survivors Club: The Secrets And Science That Could Save Your Life:
Where is the best place to have a heart attack? The obvious answer should be a hospital but according to the New England Journal of Medicine, the best place is actually a casino. On the Las Vegas strip, your survival rate if you suffer a heart attack is 53 percent better than it would be if you were in a hospital.
“What?” You may be asking with a hint of intrigue.
When you have a heart attack, your survival depends on how fast you’re defibrillated. If you get the first jolt within one minute, you have a 90 percent chance of making it. Every sixty seconds after that, your chances drop by 10 percent.
