(Reuters Health) - When a bystander gives CPR or applies an automatic defibrillator to someone who has collapsed from cardiac arrest, the benefits persist for at least a year. A Danish study has ...

THE typical response to sudden cardiac arrest is not the stuff of Hollywood movies or TV medical dramas. Rarely is the most-trained, clearest-thinking person on the scene first, taking charge and ...

People suffering from sudden cardiac arrest are more likely to survive if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AED) are used as soon as possible. However, in an ...

Being trained in CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and in how to use an Automated Axternal Defibrillator (AED) can be invaluable when someone is in serious medical distress. These skills can help ...

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A shorter pause in CPR just before a defibrillator delivered an electric shock to a cardiac arrest victim's heart significantly increased survival, according to a new study. A shorter pause in CPR ...

Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 12, 2006 -- Survival rates following cardiac arrest went up 300 percent when emergency responders used Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, a new resuscitation approach for cardiac arrest ...

Urgent memo to paramedics: Do not pause between CPR and defibrillation because doing so can be deadly. That is the key message to be taken from a new Canadian study that shows for every five-second ...

IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has newly recommended that automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) be ...