We would all like to believe that in the event a stranger was experiencing cardiac arrest, we would not hesitate to act. However, recent statistics published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers looked at data for rescue breathing vs. chest compression CPR for kids in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. A person participates in an American Red Cross ...

Countless lives have been saved by the standard CPR method of 15 chest compressions for every two rescue breaths. That technique still works, but now trainers are preparing to teach CPR in a way that ...

An emergency dispatcher in Massachusetts is being celebrated for helping save the life of a 4-year-old girl.

On Wednesday, the American Heart Association, the European Resuscitation Council and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation published a scientific statement in the journal Circulation ...

<P> Julia Phillips says she didn't think about her newly acquired CPR training when she dived into a swimming pool last week to rescue a drowning 6-year-old girl and got her breathing again.<P> "I ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many 13-year-old children have the physical strength to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even 9-year-olds can begin to learn CPR, according to a new study. Sign ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite this, “compression-only CPR is currently the most commonly performed type of CPR for pediatric cardiac ...