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. A Japanese study found that people ...

Hands-only CPR is just two steps: call 911 when someone collapses, then start chest compressions. The AHA officially endorsed ...

While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from television, a majority of shows keep getting one ...

Think you know how to perform CPR properly because you've seen it on TV? You probably don't, a new study has warned.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who suffer cardiac arrest - in which the heart stops beating - were less likely to die in subsequent years when bystanders performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

Chest compression -- not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -- seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts.

Don't fret about mouth-to-mouth. The average, untrained person can still save a life by focusing on chest compressions first. In fact, that's the recommendation of new guidelines from the American ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Victims of cardiac arrest were twice as likely to survive when given continuous chest compressions by bystanders, according to a study released Sunday by two Arizona researchers. Those ...

The more compressions the better when it comes to CPR. A new study finds survival rates are higher when rescuers used morechest compressions with little interruptions. The current American Heart ...

Many TV depictions of CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not only made errors in correct technique but may skew public ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...

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 ...