New AAP/AHA guidance recommends CPR with rescue breaths and chest compressions for all in cardiac arrest after drowning.

Doctors in Odisha saved the life of a 24-year-old soldier, from Odisha's Nayagarh district, using a special procedure called ...

New research shows that bystander CPR can substantially improve a person's odds of surviving a cardiac arrest while avoiding ...

Anyone removed from the water without signs of normal breathing or consciousness should be presumed to be in cardiac arrest.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of ...

The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics update recommendations for untrained lay rescuers and trained rescuers resuscitating adults and children who have drowned.

Additionally, those who received CPR within two minutes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had an 81 percent higher rate of survival up to release from the hospital. They also had a 95 percent higher ...

Women were less likely than men to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in public, however, this disparity improved ...

Whether or not the operator instructs you on how to deliver cardiopulmonary resuscitation could mean life or death, especially if the victim is female, new research shows. Advertisement In a study ...

A study of nearly 2,400 cardiac arrest cases in North Carolina found that when emergency dispatchers (telecommunicators) provided cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions to 911 callers, ...

You encounter someone collapsed on the sidewalk and quickly dial 911. Whether or not the operator instructs you on how to ...