The American Heart Association recently revised its CPR guidelines concerning the need for more chest compressions between mouth-to mouth-resuscitation attempts. The old standard of 15 compressions to ...

Many hospitalized patients overestimate their chance of surviving an in-hospital cardiac arrest and do not know what CPR really involves, a University of Iowa study has shown. The study further showed ...

When cardiac arrest occurs, every second counts—but, according to a new study out of the University of Pittsburgh, the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques shown on television are misleading ...

A new method of CPR could breathe new life into cardiac arrest victims. Emergency workers in Seattle, Washington discovered a way to save lives without using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. When a ...

Good Will on Wheels. That's what Rose Neal's coworkers call her. Neal, a child psychiatric care supervisor at Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center, has a copy of CPR procedure on the back of her ...

Paramedics with Davidson County Emergency Services are implementing a new CPR procedure that's aimed at saving lives. Dr. Lisa Evans Taylor, medical director for the county's emergency services ...

A 7-year-old British girl is credited with saving her mother’s life with CPR after learning how to perform the emergency procedure by watching videos on YouTube. Early one November morning, Jessica ...

When cardiac arrest occurs, every second counts—but, according to a new study out of the University of Pittsburgh, the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques shown on television are misleading ...