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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Defibtech’s recall of its automated continuous chest compression device as class I, the most ...
A study published March 17, 2007 in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost medical journals, finds that the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting are almost twice as high ...
A free training class for Continuous Chest Compression CPR will be held tomorrow — Wednesday Aug. 4 — at University Medical Center. The class, sponsored by the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart ...
TOWNSEND – A person was in cardiac arrest, and first responders knew they had to act fast. In a situation where most would pair up and switch off between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, ...
In a collaboration aimed at improving cardiac emergency responses, the Midland County EMS Advisory Board and associated EMS first responders, along with the Physician Associates of MidMichigan ...
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - Murfreesboro Fire Rescue trucks are now equipped with new life-saving medical equipment. The new service equipment provides hands-free chest compressions on cardiac arrest ...
Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...
New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia congress in Copenhagen, Denmark shows that the quality of chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be improved by using ...