NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bystanders who start CPR on children before paramedics arrive can save lives and limit brain damage, regardless of whether they do the old-fashioned type of CPR with chest ...

Compression-Only CPR Best for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients who receive shocks with public-access defibrillation, compression-only cardiopulmonary ...

When performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a hospital bed, getting into the bed or leaning on the bed optimizes the working position. In the hospital setting, working position such as lowering a ...

Dispatchers should assertively give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions to bystanders who suspect someone is in cardiac arrest because the benefits from correctly recommending CPR for ...

Workplace first-aid providers who quickly apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) skills can significantly increase chances of survival from cardiac arrest ...

Ask Alexa or Siri about the weather. But if you want to save someone’s life? Call 911 for that. Voice assistants often fall flat when asked how to perform CPR, according to a study published Monday.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Some of your favorite radio hit songs could be the key to saving a life in a moment. Hands only cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or better known as CPR, is used in situations when an ...

COPENHAGEN — A new systematic review suggests that early defibrillation by lay bystanders may roughly double the number of survivors after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) vs emergency first ...

Torri'ell Norwood's CPR training came at exactly the right moment. Last month, Norwood, 16, finished a basic life support class at her high school in St. Petersburg, Florida, just one day before she ...

Mrs Dodd said she was "one of the lucky ones", because she had been first aid-trained in her job as a primary school teacher.