Certified instructors taught non-clinical staff the emergency live-saving procedure of hands-only CPR during the Hands-Only CPR challenge at Greenwich Hospital Thursday. More than 200 employees took ...

The American Heart Association recently revised its CPR guidelines concerning the need for more chest compressions between mouth-to mouth-resuscitation attempts. The old standard of 15 compressions to ...

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 ...

The ventilation technique, also known as rescue breathing, commonly used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for people with cardiac arrest is often performed poorly by professional emergency ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, popularly known as CPR, is an emergency procedure that is performed when someone's heartbeat or breathing stops. Giving CPR on time can increase the chance of survival ...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) -- Of the approximately 1,000 cardiac arrests that occur in the U.S. every day, a large majority of them are fatal because the victims didn't receive cardiopulmonary ...

Nearly a quarter of patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) survive to discharge if CPR quickly results in return to spontaneous circulation, Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation ...

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 ...