In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...
New long-term data support a strategy of chest-compression-only CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) for bystanders who are uncomfortable or untrained in giving rescue breathing. The latest ...
Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(24):2337-2346. While both animal and human data suggest that a protocol incorporating CPR before defibrillation will improve survival in certain circumstances, the most ...
The guidelines for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) underwent a comprehensive 5-year update in 2020, but focused updates for 2021 highlight the chain of survival, both in- and out-of-hospital, ...
April 1 (UPI) --New research has discovered the type of of CPR a person receives could be the difference between life and death. The 30-day survival rate for people who get CPR after suffering cardiac ...
More than 350,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur in the United States each year. This February, during American Heart ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bystander-performed CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidents before the arrival of emergency personnel ...
A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...
DALLAS, April 1, 2019 -- A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year ...