March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...

A massive Canadian-led study of cardiac arrest patients may lead to changes in international guidelines on how long CPR should be performed before paramedics or other emergency personnel check whether ...

Millions of Brits don't know how to perform CPR, a charity has warned as it urged more people to learn the skill that can be the 'difference between life and death'. Just 43 per cent of people know ...

How to treat shock Shock is a life-threatening condition which happens when the body isn’t getting enough flow of blood. This means that the cells don’t get enough oxygen to enable them to work ...

Why Learn Hands-Only CPR? Cardiac arrest—an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes irregular heartbeat and disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, lungs and other organs — is a leading cause ...

This Saturday, June 3, is the Compress and Shock Foundations’ annual free CPR and AED Educational Day. The organization is specifically focusing on communities that are underserved and don’t have ...

Even the best CPR delivers only a small fraction of normal cardiac output, which, as this study shows, is insufficient to "prime" the heart for defibrillation shock. Achieving a normal effective ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Centers for Disease Control estimates there are more than 1,000 people who go into cardiac arrest each day around the United States. 90% of those incidents result in death.

TORONTO – More lives can be saved if rescuers reduce the time between chest compressions and delivering a shock to people suffering cardiac arrest, suggests a new study of Canadian and U.S. patients.

To give CPR, you will need to place one hand in the middle of the person's chest and the heel of the other hand on top, then interlock your fingers to lift them off the ribs. Lean over the person with ...