Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed within five minutes of a child's heart stopping nearly doubled their chances of ...

CPR guidelines for children call for cycles of 30 chest compressions at 100 to 120 compressions per minute, followed by two breaths, researchers said. For the new study, researchers reviewed data for ...

Rescue breathing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) had superior neurological outcomes compared with compression-only CPR or no CPR at all in infants, children and adolescents, according to a new ...

In a departure from the previous strategy of immediate defibrillation, the 2005 resuscitation guidelines from the American Heart Association–International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation suggested ...

CARDIAC arrests outside of a hospital are fatal almost every time - as experts plea with the public to learn life-saving CPR. Analysis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in England by the University ...

Mayor Bloomberg was ordered this morning to release a scathing analysis of the city’s perpetually troubled 911 and emergency-dispatch systems. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, after a ...

Thousands of U.S. kids each year collapse from cardiac arrest and need CPR to save their lives. But CPR must start for them in half the time required for adults, according to results presented at the ...