Imagine that you are walking down a city street and a person collapses in front of you. He is having a heart attack, and he needs instant assistance. What are you going to do? For decades the ...

To compare the proportion of correct placements (POCP) between ‘two-fingers’ and ‘two-thumbs’ techniques of chest compression among neonates of various gestations. We hypothesized that if the fingers ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Victims of cardiac arrest were twice as likely to survive when given continuous chest compressions by bystanders, according to a study released Sunday by two Arizona researchers. Those ...

The role of rescue breathing in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by a layperson is uncertain. We hypothesized that the dispatcher instructions to bystanders to provide chest compression ...

Two large-scale studies report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better -- and may be worse -- when bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth breathing than if they press on the chest ...

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 ...

January 5, 2010 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) — Results from the ongoing Amsterdam Resuscitation Study (ARREST) showing a causal relationship between CPR chest compressions and ventricular fibrillation (VF ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a special supplement, “EMS State of the Science: Important advances in prehospital cardiac care and resuscitation,” published in our sister publication JEMS. To ...

It was 4:05 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2009. I heard my wife, Dianne, say, “I think I’m having a heart attack.” I opened my eyes and saw her standing in the bathroom doorway. She grabbed her chest, took one ...