Brain activity has been detected up to an hour after cardiac arrest, challenging long-held beliefs about when death truly ...

Black and Hispanic patients experience lower survival rates after in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) than white patients. But a new Yale study suggests that differences in the use of early ...

September 5, 2012 (London, United Kingdom) — Many professionals treating in-hospital cardiac arrest often find it difficult to give up their resuscitation even after the effort is probably futile, so ...

Patients who had cardiac arrests outside of the hospital setting and were treated with a resuscitation approach designed to limit interruption of chest compressions, termed minimally interrupted ...

A viral ICU video showing a doctor performing CPR for nearly 30 minutes has sparked awe and debate online. While many call it ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an emergency procedure that combines chest compressions often with artificial ventilation in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further ...

On October 20, 2020, the American Heart Association (AHA) released online its latest update of the Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. The update included ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — CPR compressions is what many of us were taught to do when saving someone's life, but now physicians are trying out 'ECPR.' Doctors at UF Health say they've already seen success ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new approach to cardiac resuscitation designed to maintain nearly constant chest compressions triples the rate of survival of "out-of-hospital" cardiac arrest, study ...