Summer is most assuredly on the way, and it’s a time for fun in the sun, pool time and more! But unfortunately, it can also be a time for pool-related accidents. Having CPR know-how and pool ...

Dallas, TX - Closing the immense gap between how often cardiopulmonary resuscitationcould be initiated by witnesses to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the number of times it actually happens, ...

Reflecting evolving evidence, the recommendations for initial evaluation and stabilization after cardiac arrest, following ...

LOS ANGELES — A nationwide effort to promote CPR appears to have boosted survival rates for people who went into cardiac arrest in their homes, offices, grocery stores, movie theaters or anywhere else ...

Every year, more than 350,000 people in Canada and the USA experience a sudden cardiac arrest, and less than 10% survive. The results of a tandem study by the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC), ...

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It seems logical to presume that if survival rates more than double when bystanders administer CPR, then the best way to get them to perform CPR is to train them in this relatively simple procedure.

Sept. 3, 2003 (Vienna) — The developer of a novel approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac arrest, a program called Cough-CPR, claims that with specific training, patients at risk ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Adoption of compression-only CPR in Sweden in 2011 has significantly increased the likelihood that bystanders will step in to perform chest compressions for someone experiencing ...