For this week's Health Matters, WVUA 23 sat down with University of Alabama CPR Training Specialist Travis Parker, who ...

Preparing for long-term space travel means planning for medical emergencies in microgravity, sometimes with machines stepping ...

Performing CPR on a space station in microgravity involves doing a handstand on a person's chest and pushing against the ...

Using the song helps people maintain the correct rhythm when performing CPR. Interlocking your hands while doing CPR helps ...

A man practices chest compressions in San Francisco this summer on the 50th anniversary of CPR. A man practices chest compressions in San Francisco this summer on the 50th anniversary of CPR. Justin ...

The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than when bystanders ...

Each year an average of 400,000 Americans suffer sudden cardiac arrest. That is over 1,000 each day, or 45 per hour. Would you know what do if you were near someone whose heart suddenly stopped ...

In only one minute, you can learn how to save a life. It’s worth your time, because 70 percent of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen at home, so the life you save is likely to be someone you ...

Chest compressions alone are as effective in rescuing victims of heart attacks as conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation that combines compressions with forced breathing, researchers said ...

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 ...

A study published in Circulation last year found that CPR knowledge and confidence to use hands-only CPR can be increased through large-scale community training. Hands-only CPR recommendations 1 from ...

The U.P. Children’s Museum staff underwent essential training on Monday.The museum’s whole staff completed a four-hour CPR, ...