Tucson basketball fans will get medical training along with their Wildcats at the next men's home game. A new effort called "Be a Lifesaver Tucson" has the ambitious goal of training 500,000 Pima ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. A Japanese study found that people ...

You're already trembling as you call 911. Your heart is racing so fast that you have to ask the dispatcher to repeat her instructions. Every minute without a pulse drops the man's chance of survival ...

Tomorrow's the last chance of 2013 for getting instruction in chest-compression CPR from local medical students. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the ...

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 ...