We would all like to believe that in the event a stranger was experiencing cardiac arrest, we would not hesitate to act. However, recent statistics published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Heart attack patients whose hearts have stopped beating and who receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from bystanders fare better if their resuscitators skip the rescue breaths and do only chest ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What is continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? Does it replace the CPR I learned years ago? ANSWER: Continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), known as compression-only ...

Knowing "hands-only CPR" is more relevant than ever during a pandemic, according to the American Heart Association. The association says that with more of us spending more time at home, the odds of ...