The American Heart Association has issued new CPR guidelines, recommending that when attempting life-saving efforts for adults and children, start with chest compressions—"push hard and fast"—before ...

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 ...

Two of the three pillars of CPR -- opening a distressed person's airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing -- turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life of someone in cardiac ...

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. more A Japanese study found that ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. In CPR, the optimal chest compression rate is 107 ...

In a comparison of outcomes in Arizona for out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest performed by bystanders, patients who received compression-only CPR were more likely ...

If you're not certain how or when to perform the artificial breaths of CPR, just skip them. New recommendations out today from the American Heart Association suggest immediate chest compressions are ...

October 20, 2010 — Chest compressions should be the first step in addressing cardiac arrest. Therefore, the American Heart Association (AHA) now recommends that the A-B-Cs ...

Survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest patients increased when professional rescuers focused on minimizing interruptions to chest compressions during CPR. Compression rate was increased to 50 ...

This study was undertaken to compare the rates of survival to hospital between C-CPR and A-CPR in adults following OHCA in this setting.

DENVER — Every year in the U.S., more than 350,000 cardiac arrests will occur outside of the hospital, according to the American Heart Association(AHA). Last year, Louis Cicio, was one of those ...