In the event of a cardiorespiratory arrest, two actions are crucial for the patient's survival: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation. CPR consists of rhythmically compressing the ...
This February, during American Heart Month, the American Heart Association is calling on everyday citizens to be agents of ...
A new algorithm can help the rescuer give Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) effectively, finds a new study. This innovative method can help improve the quality of chest compressions. The findings of ...
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and the Korean Association of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation announced revised Korean CPR guidelines for the firs ...
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 ...
More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year. This February, during American Heart ...
A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...
Korea’s updated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines released on Thursday now tell rescuers not to remove an ...