CPR, or cardiopulmonary resuscitation, is a simple way to keep someone alive if their heart stops suddenly. Cardiologist explains why acting fast matters, when you should start CPR, and how you can do ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cardiac arrest is defined as a sudden stop in heart function. Essentially, the ...

Ed Racht previews new AHA CPR/ECC guidelines and how lessons from SCA can save lives in overdose, bleeding and drowning — just in time for CASSummit 2025 ...

What are the public's expectations regarding survival after cardiac arrest?

New research presented at the 2025 European Society of Cardiology Congress in Madrid, Spain, has found a more effective way ...

A new study examines how the duration of in-hospital cardiac-arrest resuscitation attempts affects survival, showing that systematically working to prolong these resuscitation efforts may yield an ...

In Brian Burns and colleagues' Article published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine,1 a prospective, multi-centre, open-label, randomised, superiority trial was conducted across Sydney, NSW, Australia ...

CPR compressions: It's what many of us were taught to do when saving someone's life. Now, UF Health has saved their first patient from cardiac arrest using ECPR.

Zero-gravity study shows chest compression devices deliver effective CPR, outperforming manual methods and supporting ...

Asystole is the most serious form of cardiac arrest. It happens when the heart stops beating and there is no more electrical activity. It is sometimes called "flat-line" or "flat-lining" because the ...

The authors conclude that conventional and cardiac-only resuscitation are equally beneficial in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. For sustained cardiac arrests, rescue breathing adds some value, but ...