Paramedics from Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS) are training pupils in CPR and how to use a defibrillator as part of the ...

CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is very little female representation in the curriculum and so we thought we ...

Ethan King was an 18-year-old college freshman when he almost died after experiencing cardiac arrest. One year later, he's ...

This CPR training is an American Heart Association (AHA) Friends and Family course. This training will include CPR for adult and children, choking and the use of the AED defibrillator. It is for ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are crucial life-saving techniques that can greatly influence survival rates during emergencies involving sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] I have a love/hate relationship with how healthcare is ...

Being trained in CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and in how to use an Automated Axternal Defibrillator (AED) can be invaluable when someone is in serious medical distress. These skills can help ...

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating normally. It can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Immediate defibrillation and high-quality CPR can ...

March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...

March 26, 2003 — Patients who have been in cardiac arrest for more than 5 minutes before receiving emergency care may respond better if they are treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prior ...

Former professional soccer players met with physicians from Emory on Wednesday to promote the importance of being prepared to respond to emergency cardiac events in sports. The event comes after ...