February marks American Heart Month, and the American Heart Association, in collaboration with Conemaugh Health System, is highlighting the importance of hands- ...

The Avon Fire Department continues to offer CPR and AED classes to community members and medical professionals, providing hands-on training that fire officials say can significantly improve survival ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...

Did you know immediate CPR during a cardiac arrest episode can double -- or even triple -- your chances of survival? According to a study released by the Resuscitation Science Symposium, men are more ...

TV shows portray CPR incorrectly in most episodes, spreading outdated methods that discourage lifesaving action.

Two minutes into cardiac arrest—when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body's organs—brain cells begin ...

Individuals who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with nonshockable presentations have a better chance of survival when first responders use a novel CPR approach that includes gradual ...

Learn more about CPR and why this "life-saving" method could actually cause more pain in both patients and medical professionals. Any fan of TV medical dramas knows the drill. A patient in the ...

We'd all like to assume if we went into cardiac arrest in the street, someone would come to our aid. But it turns out gender can affect your chances of being resuscitated — and women are at a ...