Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A person’s chance of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest decreases with CPR duration. The data could help ...

On TV it always seems clear and simple. A patient in the hospital goes into cardiac arrest and the medical team springs into action. After a few tense moments of furious activity, and only after all ...

When Tim Franko suffered a heart attack at work on Aug. 19, a bystander began to administer CPR within a minute. Paramedics tried to revive him for 16 minutes before transporting him to nearby Regions ...

New long-term data support a strategy of chest-compression-only CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) for bystanders who are uncomfortable or untrained in giving rescue breathing. The latest ...

A study of more than 17,238 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients found that nearly all survivals were achieved within 35 minutes of performing cardiopulmonary respiration and that there was little ...

A cardiac arrest can happen without warning at home, at work, at a ballfield or in the middle of an ordinary day.

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...

Continuous chest compression, touted as the new way to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, was not an improvement over standard CPR, according to findings published in the New England Journal of ...

NNEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — It is not terribly common for first responders to get the opportunity to meet someone they saved.

Bystander CPR is associated with higher survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but its association is weakest among Black individuals and women, according to a recent study. Researchers ...