MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. If you’ve ever completed a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you ...

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 ...

Oct. 9, 2010— -- CPR using chest compression alone administered by bystanders to victims of cardiac arrest is associated with better survival than conventional CPR, a large prospective study ...

ORLANDO, FL — The largest randomized trial ever conducted in patients with cardiac arrest has shown that, when conducted by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, CPR with continuous chest ...

Frank, 42, fell to the floor at home, a victim of cardiac arrest. His brother Jim immediately put his ear to Frank’s chest. Frank was not breathing; his heart had stopped beating. Jim called 911.

Emergency medical dispatchers give instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) over the telephone to callers requesting help for a patient with suspected cardiac arrest, before ...

Thoracic outlet syndrome involves a group of disorders that leads to compression at the thoracic outlet. The thoracic outlet is the space between the clavicle (collarbone) and first rib. Within this ...

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 ...

DALLAS, April 1, 2019 -- A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance of ...