For more than a century, epinephrine has been the drug of choice for vasopressor therapy during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but its use has also been linked to ventricular arrhythmias, ...

Sept. 3, 2003 (Vienna) — The developer of a novel approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cardiac arrest, a program called Cough-CPR, claims that with specific training, patients at risk ...

A nationwide effort to promote CPR appears to have boosted survival rates for people who went into cardiac arrest in their homes, offices, grocery stores, movie theaters or anywhere else that wasn’t a ...

It seems logical to presume that if survival rates more than double when bystanders administer CPR, then the best way to get them to perform CPR is to train them in this relatively simple procedure.

NEW ORLEANS, LA—Adoption of compression-only CPR in Sweden in 2011 has significantly increased the likelihood that bystanders will step in to perform chest compressions for someone experiencing ...

A thousand lives could be saved over the next five years by training more people how to help cardiac arrest victims, according to a new action plan. The Scottish Government, emergency services and ...