Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of sudden death in athletes during high-level, organised sport. Patient-related and event-related factors provide an opportunity for rapid intervention ...

September 5, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Many professionals treating in-hospital cardiac arrest often find it difficult to give up their resuscitation even after the effort is probably futile, so ...

Three recent studies have found that when untrained bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as part of CPR on people who are in cardiac arrest, it does not improve patient survival rates. In ...

The proportion of bystanders (as opposed to emergency medical services) performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on individuals experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has steadily ...

Mouth-to-mouth CPR with chest compressions are still the priority when rescuing victims of drowning, according to a focused update of American resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular guidelines.

All people who are pulled from the water after drowning should receive CPR with rescue breaths and chest compressions, according to updated guidance from the American Heart Association and the ...

Residents are invited to attend a cardiopulmonary resuscitation course organised by the Bermuda Hospitals Board. Kelly Pitcher, a BHB nurse who will be carrying out the training, said: “Cardiac arrest ...