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, ...

CPR training is so simple and inexpensive that Anderson says she can teach it "in a matter of minutes." For starters, as a part of coordinating post-discharge patient care with families, clinicians ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...