The guidelines for basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation are being changed to make rescue efforts simpler, more effective and easier to teach. Starting next year, the standard CPR course offered by ...

San Francisco -- Two of the three pillars of CPR -- opening a distressed person's airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing -- turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life ...

p<0.005 for all comparisons between the pre-2005 guidelines and post-2005 guidelines group. After adjustment for potential confounders, the post-2005-guidelines patients had a 50% better chance of ...

For those of you inclined to administer CPR to someone in need, but put off by the idea of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, here’s more affirmation that you can can help with chest compressions ...

The American Heart Association last week issued new CPR guidelines for healthcare workers as the COVID-19 pandemic heads into its third year. The new guidelines say healthcare workers who are ...

New, simplified guidelines for resuscitating people whose hearts have suddenly stopped emphasize more and faster chest compressions and less breathing into their mouths. The revised CPR guidelines ...

The American Heart Association on Wednesday announced its new guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), with the recovery period following cardiac arrest ‒ when the heart abruptly ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --The American Heart Association has updated guidelines to help both healthcare providers and bystanders who are not trained in CPR save the lives of cardiac arrest victims.

Drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages 1 to 4. CPR can be lifesaving and now, experts have updated the guidelines on how to perform it for drowning victims.

TORONTO, May 1,2013—Hands-only CPR (CPR without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation), may not be the best method for rural or remote areas or for anyone who has to wait more than a few minutes for an ...