The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, researchers have found. The ...

Tokyo, Japan - A new study has shown that for bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the use of chest compressions alone without mouth-to-mouth ventilation is the preferable method for ...

You have a better chance than ever of surviving cardiac arrest in King County, thanks to a new resuscitation procedure now practiced by all medics here. The survival rate has increased to 46 percent ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend Fire & Rescue crews were busy learning a new technique Friday that can save more lives during their Advanced Cardiac Life Support training ...

Emphasizing the need for caution as well as the importance of making the procedure more widely available, the American Heart Association has suggested that training in cardiac resuscitation for ...

For several Edmonton parents, the work being done by University of Alberta researchers Po-Yin Cheung and Georg Schmölzer could not be more meaningful. Cheung and Schmölzer's efforts are focused on the ...

The news: Innovative medical technology is increasingly making our lives resemble Star Trek, and the latest example is a resuscitation technique called suspended animation. This procedure cools down ...

Controlled application of vacuum pressure is a promising approach to limiting tissue damage after traumatic brain injury, suggests an experimental study. Controlled application of vacuum pressure is a ...

Sept. 3, 2003 (Vienna) — The developer of a novel approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac arrest, a program called Cough-CPR, claims that with specific training, patients at risk ...

Close to one million newborns will die in 2020 because they do not start breathing at birth. In addition, breathing problems at birth will result in much more developing brain damage. Getting air ...

DALLAS – July 1, 2008 – The current standard practice of giving infants and children 100 percent oxygen to prevent brain damage caused by oxygen deprivation may actually inflict additional harm, ...