New research shows that bystander CPR can substantially improve a person's odds of surviving a cardiac arrest while avoiding ...

Anyone removed from the water without signs of normal breathing or consciousness should be presumed to be in cardiac arrest.

The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics update recommendations for untrained lay rescuers and trained rescuers resuscitating adults and children who have drowned.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of ...

In a study involving nearly 2,400 emergency calls for cardiac arrest in North Carolina, rates for bystander CPR rose ...

Additionally, those who received CPR within two minutes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had an 81 percent higher rate of survival up to release from the hospital. They also had a 95 percent higher ...

Women were less likely than men to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in public, however, this disparity improved ...

Almost two months to the day that forever altered the trajectory of his life, the Hollidaysburg community came out in a show ...

The Wareham tow truck operator collapsed on the scene. Police and rescue personnel tried to save his life with CPR and a defibrillator.

Whether or not the operator instructs you on how to deliver cardiopulmonary resuscitation could mean life or death, especially if the victim is female, new research shows. Advertisement In a study ...