Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is an emergency lifesaving technique that is used when a person's heart has stopped ...

EZ CPR, an Israeli smartphone app that was launched this week, provides instructions on how to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in emergency situations. Eli Beer, president of the United ...

When someone suffers from cardiac arrest—an electrical malfunction in your heart that abruptly stops it from beating—knowing how to perform CPR can literally save their life. But more often than not, ...

"Anyone can learn CPR - and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ...

Sudden cardiac arrest is a scary thing, and not just for the person experiencing it. Imagine that someone collapses in front of you. They are desperately gasping for air or not breathing and their ...

Welcome to “Ask the Expert,” a UTHealth Houston news series where our leading experts examine pressing health challenges. In this edition, we address why learning bystander CPR can help save lives and ...

Knowing how to perform CPR accurately can be the difference between saving a life or losing one. However, not everyone is aware of how to perform CPR, and even those who are can get super nervous in ...

More than 350,000 people had sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital in 2017. Those who received CPR were two to three times more likely to survive. Joshua Moeckly, a Mayo Clinic cardiac nurse, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DALLAS — New guidelines out today switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The ...