A team from American Medical Response, with Phillip Vasquez of the Chino Valley Fire Department, recently taught compressions-only CPR to students at Chino Hills High School. The Feb. 12 class was ...

Every year, 3.8 million people suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). While CPR is the ultimate lifeline, survival rates remain suboptimal. Current "one-size-fits-all" chest compression ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. more A Japanese study found that ...

OUR TODD KAZAKIEWICH WITH THIS STORY FROM WORCESTER. YOU DON’T WANT TO COME IN FROM AN ANGLE. YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT OVER THE PATIENT SO THAT WHEN YOU’RE PRESSING DOWN, YOU CAN USE YOUR BODY. YOU CAN ...

TUCSON, Ariz. – The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...