Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, those who received basic life support had better survival and less chance of poor neurological functioning compared with those who received advanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Associate Professor Janet Bray receives funding from a Heart Foundation of Australia Fellowship, and grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Resuscitation ...

The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). During these past 50 years, tremendous research has been conducted to evaluate techniques, ...

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 ...

When emergency medical responders receive a call that someone’s heart has stopped, standard practice is to send the best help available: a truck equipped with a team trained in provide everything ...

The National President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Tope Osundara, has lamented the acute shortage of people with basic knowledge of life support that could help to undertake ...

The workshop—organised under GIMS’s newly launched Vidya Setu unit for skill, education, and training—is being conducted in collaboration with the Indian Resuscitation Council Federation The ...