Bystanders should stick to chest compressions, many experts say. July 28, 2010— -- Imagine for a moment, you and your friend are having dinner in a small restaurant and suddenly your friend stops ...

Two of the three pillars of CPR -- opening a distressed person's airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing -- turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life of someone in cardiac ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. If you’ve ever completed a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dallas – “Push hard, push fast” next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice.

Editor’s note: This article is part of a special supplement, “EMS State of the Science: Important advances in prehospital cardiac care and resuscitation,” published in our sister publication JEMS. To ...

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...

We don't b elieve that one is necessarily better than the other. The evidence that we have now seems to suggest that they are equivalent for this group of patients: adults who suddenly collapse. The ...

Chest compressions should now come first when performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to new American Heart Association guidelines released today. Compressions should be followed by ...

Chest compression — not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation — seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts. A ...