Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers looked at data for rescue breathing vs. chest compression CPR for kids in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. A person participates in an American Red Cross ...

With pool season around the corner, and summer break about a month away, there's one thing every parent or caregiver should know: How to perform CPR. No one likes to think that an emergency could take ...

Countless lives have been saved by the standard CPR method of 15 chest compressions for every two rescue breaths. That technique still works, but now trainers are preparing to teach CPR in a way that ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many 13-year-old children have the physical strength to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even 9-year-olds can begin to learn CPR, according to a new study. Sign ...

LOS ANGELES - Chest compressions alone are as effective in rescuing victims of heart attacks as conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation that combines compressions with forced breathing, researchers ...

<P> Julia Phillips says she didn't think about her newly acquired CPR training when she dived into a swimming pool last week to rescue a drowning 6-year-old girl and got her breathing again.<P> "I ...

HOLBROOK, Massachusetts (WCVB) -- An emergency dispatcher in Massachusetts is being celebrated for helping save the life of a 4-year-old girl. A 911 call came into the Holbrook Regional Emergency ...

Different than a heart attack, a cardiac arrest is a life-threatening medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating. If you're ever on hand when this happens, knowing how to do CPR can help ...

New advice on how best to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) suggests doubling the number of chest compressions, Australian emergency medicine experts say. This should mean more sustained ...

New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first" for traditional ...

(WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac school nurse says she is grateful for being in the right place at the right time when she used her CPR training to save a young child at a Wisconsin Dells resort. While ...