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 ...

Neutral trial results for repositioning chest compressions based on ultrasound ...

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 ...

A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in hospitals shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005. The proportion of hospital deaths after CPR rose, and the proportion of patients ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers looked at data for rescue breathing vs. chest compression CPR for kids in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. A person participates in an American Red Cross ...

A study of more than 17,238 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients found that nearly all survivals were achieved within 35 minutes of performing cardiopulmonary respiration and that there was little ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). In new research presented at ...