When a person has a heart attack, and the heart stops beating, a new study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the victim will have better ...

A meta-analysis demonstrates that dispatcher-assisted chest-compression–only cardiopulmonary resuscitation increases survival compared with traditional CPR in adults with witnessed out-of ...

and the quality of both in-hospital and out-of-hospital CPR is sometimes poor. Mechanical devices have been developed with the aim of providing optimal chest compression. One such system ...

What do the classic hit “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees and Sabrina Carpenter’s first Billboard Hot 100 chart topper have in common? They can help to save lives. “Please, Please, Please” proved a hit ...

Chest-compression–only CPR is easier to teach, especially in real time by emergency dispatchers, and is more likely to be attempted by laypersons. Moreover, the recently released 2010 American ...