On TV it always seems clear and simple. A patient in the hospital goes into cardiac arrest and the medical team springs into action. After a few tense moments of furious activity, and only after all ...

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 ...

Patients receiving dialysis have higher rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and worse long-term survival after discharge than other patients, according to a national cohort study published ...

You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare ...

CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests occurring overnight than those that happen during the day, according to a new study. CPR quality is worse during in-hospital cardiac arrests ...

Although Francis has worked in the ICU for seven years, it was very new and overwhelming to do CPR outside of the hospital.

NEW ORLEANS — In children with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR conferred a survival benefit, but conventional bystander CPR was associated with better outcomes than compression-only ...

According to the American Heart Association, 23,000 children suffer from cardiac arrest every year and 1 out of 7 children ...

When newborn Ellis McCarty leaves Union Hospital in the arms of his parents Stephanie and Andrew McCarty, Ellis will have a safer caregiver environment thanks to the hospital and the American Heart ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...

New long-term data support a strategy of chest-compression-only CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) for bystanders who are uncomfortable or untrained in giving rescue breathing. The latest ...