The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has newly recommended that automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) be used on female cardiac arrest patients without removing undergarments such ...

While CPR can double or triple survival rates for the more than 350,000 people who suffer cardiac arrest annually, a new ...

You’ve seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television - the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their ...

A new study from the University of Pittsburgh found that only 30 percent of TV episodes show correct CPR methods used outside ...

Students at Grand Rapids Preparatory Academy have been learning how to save lives through CPR thanks to a generous donation ...

Dr. Koenig called the 750,000-person milestone a "remarkable accomplishment" that highlights the power of community action. The data supports the urgency: administering CPR immediately can double a ...

Two minutes into cardiac arrest—when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body's organs—brain cells begin ...

Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...

TV viewers are still given the impression they should do pulse checks and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, despite the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2008 endorsement of ”hands-only” CPR, a two-step ...

There is yet more evidence showing that a simpler and easier way to perform CPR — using chest compressions only — saves lives just as well as traditional CPR and its mouth-to-mouth breathing. As a ...