NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer cardiac arrest - in which the heart stops beating - were less likely to die in subsequent years when bystanders performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. A Japanese study found that people ...

Chest compression -- not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -- seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts.

Well, when it comes to delivering more effective CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)—CPR that can save lives—results from a new study in the journal, Resuscitation, point to data indicating that ...

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 ...

Patients experiencing non-trauma–related cardiac arrest derive no added protection against death or neurological damage when emergency medical services (EMS) providers use continuous chest ...

A randomized trial shows no difference in adult patient outcomes with the two approaches. A previous nonrandomized study showed improved outcomes from adult cardiac arrest with compression-only ...

Sept. 18 -- WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- If you see someone collapse and suspect they are in the middle of cardiac arrest, push on that person's chest and keep on pushing -- the more pushes ...

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...