Carol Wood said if a woman was having a cardiac arrest, she would rather be resuscitated than left [Jamie Niblock/BBC] CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. Study ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

A Bellevue Police officer used a defibrillator to revive a middle-school teacher after she collapsed Tuesday. On Tuesday, Officer Jay Moriarty was at Highland Middle School when staff reported that a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A defibrillator was used to save the life of a student who collapsed during track practice in Hillsborough County. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy ...

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79-year-old Al Pollock suffered a heart attack during a tennis match in Boynton Beach, Florida. Tennis pro Brett Maynard, who had recently taken a CPR and AED refresher course, saved Pollock's life by ...