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 ...

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New guidelines from the American Heart Association emphasize compression-only CPR, which could help bystanders uncomfortable with mouth-to-mouth assisted breathing.

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.

In the most recent CPR study, which looked at 4,400 cardiac arrest patients and was published last week in the Journal of the American Heart Association, 13 percent of victims who got CPR using ...

"When pet owners or bystanders initiate life support, we have seen successful outcomes and the pet may go back home with a ...

The revised CPR guidelines, issued Monday by the American Heart Association, advise giving 30 chest compressions for every two rescue breaths, up from 15 for every two breaths.

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

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