Five compelling, real-life CPR stories kick off a new American Heart Association storytelling initiative focused on doubling the sudden cardiac arrest survival rate, as part of CPR & AED Awareness ...

DALLAS, March 21, 2022 — For the first time, experts provide a concise review of the latest data on the experience of lay people who have performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), assessing their ...

Old-fashioned CPR is getting a makeover. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is crucial when people collapse with cardiac arrest, but it's hard to perform correctly. Now major efforts are under way to ...

The odds of survival increased 91% when a lay rescuer started CPR within one minute after the cardiac arrest, 98% when initiated in two to three minutes and 37% when performed in four to five minutes ...

Rescue breathing is a potentially lifesaving technique. Rescue breathing involves exhaling into the airway and lungs of a person who has stopped breathing. A person performing rescue breathing takes a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The odds that a person will survive going into cardiac arrest are one in 10 and on Monday two people who defied those odds stood up in San Francisco to honor their rescuers. Ray ...

“It kind of is a reminder for us when we’re doing CPR to get the rhythm and the motion correctly,” nurse Desirlee Lewis tells Inside Edition. A nurse came to the rescue using a familiar tune after a ...

Roseville-based Advanced Circulatory Systems, Inc., is touting the results of a recent clinical trial that found that the company's device provides a better alternative to traditional CPR. The trial ...