You may want to double-check your CPR skills. While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from ...

Hands-only CPR is just two steps: call 911 when someone collapses, then start chest compressions. The AHA officially endorsed ...

Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives – and researchers say they’ve now come up with a better method. Automatic chest compression carried out by a mechanical piston ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. biomedical engineer developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that he says promises to be more effective than standard CPR. Leslie ...

Since having quadruple bypass heart surgery a few years earlier, Dave Bol had adopted a lifestyle of walking. Three to four miles per day, he would trek around Grandville. Then one evening a decade ...

You need only two things to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation and possibly save a life: a willingness to press hard on someone's chest and familiarity with the Bee Gees' disco hit "Stayin' Alive." ...

(CBS/AP) Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives. It's the first large American study to show more adults survived cardiac arrest when a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) -- A five-year clinical trial led by the University of Minnesota Medical School researchers has led to a new method of CPR that improves long-term survival rates with good brain ...

At one point you're mowing your lawn and the next you're unconscious, on the ground, suffering a heart attack. That's what happened to 63-year-old Jack Fong. But due to Germantown Fire Department's ...