HealthDay News — Guidance has been updated for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care, as presented in articles published online Oct. 22 in Circulation.

IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

Indians are far behind in the global surge to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — a combination of rescue breathing and chest compressions delivered to victims of cardiac arrest. The ...

Arizona researchers compared the survival rates in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with positive-pressure ventilation (bag-valve mask) vs. passive oxygen flow. Survival was higher ...

Emphasizing the need for caution as well as the importance of making the procedure more widely available, the American Heart Association has suggested that training in cardiac resuscitation for ...

On October 20, 2020, the American Heart Association (AHA) released online its latest update of the Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. The update included ...

When cardiac arrest occurs, the heart suddenly stops pumping blood through the body, leading immediately to circulatory ...

When people’s hearts stop beating, they lose consciousness in seconds. If standing, they fall. If sitting, they slump over. Their bodies jerk, and reflexively, they gasp. Those breaths are deceptive.

A cardiac resuscitation unit worth about $10,000 was reported stolen Thursday from the garage of an Inverness physician, police said. The unit was apparently stolen after a thief entered the unlocked ...