In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. A Japanese study found that people ...

This concept is a gizmo which you’d have in a first aid kit to help you if someone collapses and needs CPR. You’d whack it on the chest of the ill person, line it ...

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 ...

CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a life-saving method performed when someone’s heart stops beating or their breathing becomes irregular. A cardiac arrest is a life-threatening emergency which ...

In 2010, the AHA revised the guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and increased the recommended depth of chest compression from ≥38 mm to ≥50 mm, with no upper limit defined. Now, the ...

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 ...

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 ...