The American Heart Association last week issued new CPR guidelines for healthcare workers as the COVID-19 pandemic heads into its third year. The new guidelines say healthcare workers who are ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - According to the American Heart Association, early CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival. “Since 1966 the American Heart Association has been reviewing its ...

Drowning is the number one cause of death for children ages 1 to 4. CPR can be lifesaving and now, experts have updated the guidelines on how to perform it for drowning victims. What happened to ...

Hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation is recommended by the American Heart Association, but it may not be the best way to save lives if more sophisticated medical care is slow in coming, according ...

The new guidelines call for 911 operators to be trained to provide easy-to-follow CPR instructions by phone. The heart association also offers new guidance to professionals, calling for cooling down ...

DALLAS - New guidelines out today switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first" for ...

Over the last 40 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) has promoted the ABCs (Airway-Breathing-Chest Compressions) of CPR. 2010 guidelines released in October, however, reordered the sequence to ...

TV varies dramatically in informing viewers about medical emergencies, but it also teaches audiences how not to perform ...