Approximately 350,000 people in the U.S. experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year and a staggering 90% of them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardiac arrest – the sudden loss of heart function due to an irregular heart rhythm – is a leading cause of death in the United States. When an individual suffers cardiac arrest, their survival ...

If an astronaut suffered a sudden cardiac arrest in space, could their life be saved? The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Society for Aerospace Medicine have plans in ...

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Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart's electrical system abruptly malfunctions and stops the heart from pumping blood to the rest of the body, which results in loss of blood to the brain, lungs and ...

CPR guidelines for children call for cycles of 30 chest compressions at 100 to 120 compressions per minute, followed by two breaths, researchers said. For the new study, researchers reviewed data for ...