New findings indicate television CPR scenes frequently mislead viewers about who needs CPR, where cardiac arrests occur, and how CPR should be performed. Study: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and ...

The preliminary study reviewed data for more than 10,000 children from a large U.S. database that tracks out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Researchers examined how delays in starting CPR affect ...

Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...

The first phase showed that, in patients who had had out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the following factors were independently associated with survival: CPR administered by bystanders and CPR ...