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

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 ...

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. If you’ve ever completed a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you ...

We don't b elieve that one is necessarily better than the other. The evidence that we have now seems to suggest that they are equivalent for this group of patients: adults who suddenly collapse. The ...

On Wednesday, Orange County was the headquarters of an organized effort to break the record for single-day hands-only CPR ...

The American Heart Association today issued new guidelines on how to perform CPR. The recommendations say rescuers should focus first and foremost on chest compressions, not breathing into the ...

PACIFIC BEACH – Pacific Beach Middle School is ready. The school was recently awarded $1,500 worth of equipment to augment the CPR component in its healthcare literacy class. “This grant provides PBMS ...

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 ...