(Medical Xpress)—Many children with chronic disease or serious health conditions are at risk of cardiac arrest. Teaching their parents to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation can save kids' lives and ...

New, simplified guidelines for resuscitating people whose hearts have suddenly stopped emphasize more and faster chest compressions and less breathing into their mouths. The revised CPR guidelines, ...

When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, just 24 years of age, collapsed after receiving a hit to the chest during a football game Jan. 2 against the Cincinnati Bengals, on-field CPR provided by the ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers described a comparative evaluation of four different voice assistants (VAs) for their ability to provide appropriate cardiopulmonary ...

Lumberton firefighters have a new way to perform CPR - a machine that is 95 percent more effective than manual CPR. The 17-pound LUCAS Chest Compression System is the first of its kind in Hardin and ...

(CBS/AP) Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives. It's the first large American study to show more adults survived cardiac arrest when a ...

Don Hladek of Fort Morgan was the first Morgan County resident to experience the almost miraculous power of the AutoPulse Resuscitation System. The night before his heart attack, the 64-year-old ...

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

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Two steps can save a life at times of cardiac arrest. 1. Call 911. 2. Push hard and fast in the center of the chest of the cardiac arrest victim. Those are the steps for hands-only ...

The success of CPR is vastly overrated by patients, a new study suggests. Not only does the general public consider CPR more effective than it really is, they tend to discount the negative effect it ...