HealthDay News — Guidance has been updated for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care, as presented in articles published online Oct. 22 in Circulation.

“Since 1966 the American Heart Association has been reviewing its guidelines every few years, it seems to be about every five ...

White adults are three times more likely to survive cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

A child who receives bystander CPR within the first 5 minutes after a cardiac arrest is nearly twice as likely to survive ...

SAN ANTONIO – Diamond Garza said CPR can be as simple as singing the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. “There’s a need for people to know what to do,” Garza, a CPR instructor at Life Enrichment ...

DALLAS, July 26, 2023 — Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new ...

If someone went into cardiac arrest in front of you, would you know how to save them? That’s a question a local girl and the ...

Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Black and Hispanic adults who go ...

FIRST AID CLASS, day-long course includes adult, infant and child CPR, basic first aid and new training for automated external defibrillators, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 13, Nov. 10 or Dec. 8, Fauquier ...

Different than a heart attack, a cardiac arrest is a life-threatening medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating. If you're ever on hand when this happens, knowing how to do CPR can help ...