Chest compression — not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation — seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts. A ...

In fact, the revised recommended ratio is just two breaths per every 30 chest compressions. That's twice as many compressions as was recommended in the past. ""Just doing chest compressions can make a ...

The American Heart Association updates its CPR guidelines, prioritizing compressions over mouth-to-mouth. Watch a video tutorial on how to give CPR the updated way. WSJ's Christina Tsuei reports.

Kids learning bystander CPR may be the answer to reducing death from the 420,000 cardiac arrests that occur outside of a hospital each year. Sadly, most of those victims die because bystanders don’t ...