INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Carol Wood said if a woman was having a cardiac arrest, she would rather be resuscitated than left [Jamie Niblock/BBC] CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about ...

Public videos of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests showed brief warning signs before collapse, frequent seizure-like movements or gasping afterwards, and a gap between quick recognition and starting ...

After a Waterbury high school student collapsed during a hockey practice in Watertown last week, a defibrillator delivered "life-saving shocks," police said. The incident underscores the importance of ...