Chances are, you haven’t received proper training since you were a lifeguard in high school. Fortunately, for emergency situations that could happen any ordinary day, YouTube has plenty of helpful ...

If you’re alone with a child or baby who is unresponsive and not breathing (or only gasping), call 911 after you’ve done 2 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). If someone else is present, ...

Is there anything more terrifying than finding an unconscious child? Research conducted by U.K. first aid charity, St John Ambulance, found that it is the most frightening scenario for almost ...

Helping someone in cardiac arrest is not as daunting as it seems. By Gina Kolata Before 1958, there was no such thing as CPR. If someone’s heart stopped because of cardiac arrest, that person fell to ...

The coronavirus pandemic is forcing clinicians, health care institutions, and public officials to develop crisis standards of care that differ radically from ordinary care for services such as ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by bystanders is associated with increased survival rates among persons with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. We investigated whether rates of ...

A baby girl is alive and recovering Thursday thanks to the heroic, quick-thinking response from a grandfather and Upland police officers. "Is the baby breathing? Please, I’ve never dealt with this.

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 ...

When very old patients suffer cardiac arrest, doctors usually try to revive them — even if they were already near death. By Paula Span A few months ago, an ambulance brought a woman in her 90s to the ...