A team from American Medical Response, with Phillip Vasquez of the Chino Valley Fire Department, recently taught compressions-only CPR to students at Chino Hills High School. The Feb. 12 class was ...

Table 1 2015 CPR Guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council and American Heart Association [4,5]. Full size table To deliver high-quality CPR, manual chest compression CPR (M-CPR) is ...

First responders administer CPR on a motorcycle rider. (File photo courtesy OnScene.TV) The San Diego County Fire Protection District has upgraded 35 automated chest-compression devices to their ...

Don't fret about mouth-to-mouth. The average, untrained person can still save a life by focusing on chest compressions first. In fact, that's the recommendation of new guidelines from the American ...

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. more A Japanese study found that ...

Automatic chest compression devices are routinely used on Earth by doctors in restricted environments such as emergency helicopter, or where prolonged CPR needs to be carried out over a longer period ...

High quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases survival outcomes. Smaller rescuers have been found to be at risk of providing inadequate CPR, particularly relating to chest compression ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...

Ryder Elkin clutched a handful of papers tightly as he told his classmates at Palos Verdes High School about the day he saved his father’s life. “It started just like any other day,” the soft-spoken ...