Updated CPR guidelines urgently promoted as drowning risks increase with summer swim season. New protocols stress the importance of rescue breaths—learn how to keep your family safe.

The American Heart Association on Wednesday announced its new guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), with the recovery period following cardiac arrest ‒ when the heart abruptly ...

As the risk for COVID-19 exposure during CPR for out-of-hospital or in-hospital cardiac arrest is a serious concern for emergency medical services personnel, health care workers and lay bystanders ...

Cooling an adult who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with initial rhythm of ventricular fibrillation to 32° to 34° C is amongst the new, evidence based CPR guidelines put forth by the AHA.

The guidelines for basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are being changed to make rescue efforts simpler, more effective and easier to teach. Starting next year, the standard CPR course ...

All people who are pulled from the water after drowning should receive CPR with rescue breaths and chest compressions, according to updated guidance from the American Heart Association and the ...

New, simplified guidelines for resuscitating people whose hearts have suddenly stopped emphasize more and faster chest compressions and less breathing into their mouths. The revised CPR guidelines ...

San Francisco -- Two of the three pillars of CPR -- opening a distressed person's airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing -- turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life ...

Residents are invited to attend a cardiopulmonary resuscitation course organised by the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Kelly ...