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Ah, sorry! I heard afterwards that she was declared dead when she arrived in the hospital...

CPR + Old Lady + Not in a hospital = Almost certainly didn't survive, or live well if she did.

Yeah, that's what I got from lifeguard training. The best chance of doing anything positive with it is going to be on an otherwise young and healthy person whose heart stopped due to a very unusual trauma.

And CPR and artificial respiration is never a miraculous eyes-opening recovery like in the movies— it's pretty much just putting oxygen in the brain to buy a few extra minutes for the ambulance to arrive and take over.

Correct :-(

I'm sure you did everything you could, the sad fact of life is that eventually it ends.

*and with what quality of life did she survive?

If I am 85 years old, maybe it is better for me to move on.