NFL player Damar Hamlin's recent high-profile cardiac arrest vaulted the importance of timely CPR and defibrillation into the spotlight. Many of us who work on the front-lines of the ER or as ...

Helping someone in cardiac arrest is not as daunting as it seems. By Gina Kolata Before 1958, there was no such thing as CPR. If someone’s heart stopped because of cardiac arrest, that person fell to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CPR, especially when done immediately, can double or triple a person's survival chances. (Getty Images) According to the AHA, ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Marlana Hodgins and her son, Trevor. It has been edited for length ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Paging script-writers: Pumping on a patient's chest during CPR while a stretcher careens down a hospital hallway works just fine, Chinese researchers have found. By ...

The hospital code blue alarm is supposed to signal urgency — a rush of medical professionals fighting to pull a patient back from the brink. But in certain rooms, the performance is more muted.

People of a certain age know the Bee Gees’ “Stayin' Alive” as the right rhythm track not just for John Travolta’s strut, but also for anyone doing hands-only CPR. But decades later, Gen Z says it’s ...

When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...

Fran Trathen encourages others to learn CPR after her life was saved during the incident in 2025.

Learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation, aka CPR, can save lives. Vada Carawan, 11, learned the life-saving procedure during a Girl Scouts meeeting without realizing that days later, that knowledge and ...