These interventions can keep blood flowing to the brain until emergency medical assistance arrives.This article provides steps for performing CPR on an adult, child, or baby. It also describes how ...

Worldwide interest in CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, skyrocketed following Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2, according to the American ...

The American Heart Association recently revised its CPR guidelines concerning the need for more chest compressions between mouth-to mouth-resuscitation attempts. The old standard of 15 compressions to ...

Houston 911 dispatchers began teaching a simpler procedure today to panicked callers trying to revive adults in cardiac arrest. In a reversal of long-standing policy here and around the nation, ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA - More than 350,000 Americans suffer from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) each year. It strikes at work, in the grocery store, on the soccer field, and even at home, where ...

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12, 2016 -- CPR increases the chance of survival after sudden cardiac arrest, yet knowledge of this life-saving procedure is low in many communities, especially among older adults, ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

Kids Need CPR More Promptly Than Adults Following Cardiac Arrest By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Thousands of U.S. kids each year collapse from cardiac ...

(CNN) — Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Overall, the relative ...