HealthDay News — Guidance has been updated for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care, as presented in articles published online Oct. 22 in Circulation.

The John Hopkins Children's Center approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation increases compliance with American Heart Association guidelines. A new approach to cardiopulmonary resuscitation is helping ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed within five minutes of a child's heart stopping nearly doubled their chances of ...

Studies of the outcomes of preterm infants after the receipt of extensive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at birth or in the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have yielded varied results. A ...

People who have a cardiac arrest in their own homes have similar neurological outcomes regardless of socioeconomic background, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine ...

Indians are far behind in the global surge to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — a combination of rescue breathing and chest compressions delivered to victims of cardiac arrest. The ...

Background: This study was undertaken to provide up-to-date survival data for Canadian adult in-patients following attempted resuscitation from cardiac or respiratory arrest. We hope that objective ...

Vasopressin is an alternative to epinephrine for vasopressor therapy during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but clinical experience with this treatment has been limited. We randomly assigned adults who ...

Changes Clinical Practice: Specialized advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) training for obstetricians, anesthesiologists and emergency medicine physicians with emphasis on changes in pregnancy is ...

Cardiac arrest is a devastating clinical event. Its cause may be less important than the process and outcomes of resuscitation, given the often dismal neurologic recovery and overall survival after ...

At least 225,000 people in the United States will die suddenly this year from coronary heart disease before they reach a hospital. 1,2 In addition, an estimated 370,000 to 750,000 patients will have a ...