New recommendations on rescuing adults and children who have drowned include an important update for healthcare professionals, trained rescuers, and untrained lay rescuers. The American Heart ...
DALLAS, Oct. 22, 2025 —The “2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC),” published today in the Association’s flagship ...
Emergency medical dispatchers give instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) over the telephone to callers requesting help for a patient with suspected cardiac arrest, before ...
CARDIAC resuscitation charity Heartstart Malvern is celebrating World Restart a Heart Day (October 16) by teaming up with Malvern Hills District Council to install public access defibrillators. Five ...
A man undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, exhibited signs of conscious awareness for 90 minutes before the medical team stopped the life-sustaining procedure, according to a new case ...
The role of rescue breathing in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by a layperson is uncertain. We hypothesized that the dispatcher instructions to bystanders to provide chest compression ...
Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 12, 2006 -- Survival rates following cardiac arrest went up 300 percent when emergency responders used Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, a new resuscitation approach for cardiac arrest ...
The odds of surviving in-hospital cardiac arrest declines rapidly with longer duration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), new retrospective data showed. Among all comers, the likelihood of ...
THE price of defibrillators has dropped thanks to the removal of VAT from these lifesaving machines in Budget 2023. The Irish Sun has campaigned for more defibs to be made available to the public ...