Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who received basic life support had better survival ...

The rates in which nursing home staff perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest residents “were not ideal,” according to a new study. Researchers say ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to ...

Basic life support training in schools and communities is essential to improve survival from cardiac arrest, according to European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines published online today in ...

This applies to learners who have never been AHA-certified in the discipline previously or if it has been greater than two years and one month since your last AHA certification in the discipline.

Student must show up on time and prepared for class. Any student who is more than 15 minutes late after the start of the class will be not permitted to attend and must re-schedule for another course.

In the wake of recent incidents of sudden deaths reported at some gym centres in Kashmir, a debate has emerged over the essential precautions that should be taken ...

With over 26,000 cardiac arrests occurring every year in Australia and over 76% of them occurring in the home, some of our youngest Australians are learning how to help. But why kids? It’s simple.

I recently had to re-certify my credentials in Advanced Cardiac Life Support. ACLS is a protocol for cardiopulmonary resuscitation that not only uses chest compressions and artificial breathing, but ...

Patients who had cardiac arrest at home or elsewhere outside of a hospital had greater survival to hospital discharge and to 90 days beyond if they received basic life support (BLS) vs. advanced life ...