When people hear the term CPR, they often envision a mouth-to-mouth procedure, combined with applied pressure on the chest.

A study published in Circulation last year found that CPR knowledge and confidence to use hands-only CPR can be increased through large-scale community training. Hands-only CPR recommendations 1 from ...

October 20, 2010 — Chest compressions should be the first step in addressing cardiac arrest. Therefore, the American Heart Association (AHA) now recommends that the A-B-Cs ...

BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by health care responders is often suboptimal during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Mechanical CPR devices have been promoted as a strategy to ...

A meta-analysis demonstrates that dispatcher-assisted chest-compression–only cardiopulmonary resuscitation increases survival compared with traditional CPR in adults with witnessed out-of-hospital ...

The ventilation technique, also known as rescue breathing, commonly used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for people with cardiac arrest is often performed poorly by professional emergency ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A person’s chance of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest decreases with CPR duration. The data could help ...