We would all like to believe that in the event a stranger was experiencing cardiac arrest, we would not hesitate to act. However, recent statistics published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Neutral trial results for repositioning chest compressions based on ultrasound ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dallas – “Push hard, push fast” next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice.

Ed Howard was waiting for a COTA bus at 17th Avenue and High Street last October when he collapsed. A nurse saw him drop and started CPR. Paramedics were there within minutes and took over. Howard, 70 ...

Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest ...

Knowing "hands-only CPR" is more relevant than ever during a pandemic, according to the American Heart Association. The association says that with more of us spending more time at home, the odds of ...

Researchers say they’ve found the best method for CPR in space Mechanical piston devices provide compressions powerful enough to provide life-sustaining blood flow The devices outperform other ...

Since having quadruple bypass heart surgery a few years earlier, Dave Bol had adopted a lifestyle of walking. Three to four miles per day, he would trek around Grandville. Then one evening a decade ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further ...