It's estimated that around 25% of patients who have a cardiac arrest and receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in a normal hospital setting will survive. Those odds shoot up to 50% for patients ...

“Are you a doctor?” A man asks UAB Pediatric Surgery Fellow Joseph Esparaz, M.D. Esparaz had just completed a 12-hour shift on surgical call and was browsing the aisle of his local Whole Foods grocery ...

Three million people in Sweden are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Whether this training increases the frequency of bystander CPR or the survival rate among persons who have ...

This past November, Karen Risinger’s AP Biology class at West Shamokin High School attended open heart surgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Not only did students get the opportunity to ...

A dentist who saved his brother’s life by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) when he suffered a cardiac arrest is urging everyone to learn how to perform the first aid technique. Dentist ...