The American Heart Association recently added Pearl Jam's "Evenflow" to our collective repertoire of songs with 100 to 120 ...

These interventions can keep blood flowing to the brain until emergency medical assistance arrives.This article provides steps for performing CPR on an adult, child, or baby. It also describes how ...

If you’re going to have a heart attack, perhaps Las Vegas is the best place to do it. Firefighters save 30 percent of cardiac arrest patients, and the national average is 5 percent. The numbers may ...

STAMFORD -- On Aug. 15 of last year, Stamford postal worker Fred Naphen stepped away from his job to grab some fresh air in the parking lot outside. Moments later, Naphen felt a searing pain in his ...

Individuals who were trained with a 60-second hands-only CPR training video had significantly higher rates of average compression and compression depth vs. a control group that did not view the video.

The depth of chest compressions and the rate at which they were applied make a significant impact on survival and recovery of patients, a review of research by UT Southwestern Medical Center Emergency ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] The National Fire Agency announced on the 10th that it has established the "2023 CPR Education Enhancement Promotion Plan," which focuses on strengthening education ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — You frequently hear that learning CPR can save a life. One small community in Pinellas County is proving that’s true over and over again. Dr. Sandra Grosvenor is the Health ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...

(CNN) — You have probably heard this said before… “CPR saves lives.” Researchers say people overestimate the success rate of the emergency technique however. The Emergency Medicine Journal published ...

If you think that performing CPR on a person whose heart has stopped is a surefire way to save their life, you may be watching too much TV. The truth is more depressing than fiction, according to a ...