Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. If someone were to have a cardiac event or heart attack, would you know what to do in an emergency? Following the taping of Monday’s ...

WESTMINSTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Starting New Year's Day, all agencies responding to 911 calls in Orange County will be required to carry automatic chest compression devices (ACCDs) and some first ...

The chance that a person in cardiac arrest will survive increases when rescuers doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) spend more time giving chest compressions, according to a multi-center study ...

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physio-Control, Inc., the world’s leading provider of professional emergency response solutions, announced today that the main results of the large randomized LINC ...

IT CAN SAVE LIVES. THIS DEVICE IS CPR FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, BUT IT’S NOT EASY TO GET WESH 2’S TONY ATKINS FOUND OUT WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE USING THIS TECHNOLOGY ALREADY, AND SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO SAYS ...

CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. A Japanese study found that people ...

For the past decade, only two fire agencies in Orange County — the cities of Newport Beach and Orange — chose to use automated chest compression devices instead of manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

Earth-based chest compressions during CPR are based on the rescuer's weight, which does not exist in microgravity. As a result, over the last 30 years, researchers have searched for alternative ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

Deep chest compressions can crack ribs, but they reduce brain damage during cardiac arrest, reports a study presented today at ESC Congress 2020. Study author Dr. Irene Marco Clement of University ...