Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is an emergency lifesaving technique that is used when a person's heart has stopped ...

"You don't learn CPR because you expect to use it," said Dr. Saket Girotra, a professor of medicine at UT Southwestern ...

When someone suffers from cardiac arrest—an electrical malfunction in your heart that abruptly stops it from beating—knowing how to perform CPR can literally save their life. But more often than not, ...

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, ...

Picture this: You’re wrapping up a workout when a fellow gym-goer collapses. The person hovering over them frantically asks if anyone knows how to do CPR. Do you freeze? Or are you able to jump in and ...

When someone has a cardiac arrest, the actions of people nearby can make the difference between life and death. For years, ...

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 ...

Schools already rehearse fire drills and lockdown drills. Cardiac arrest is far more common, write Meng Yang and Dr. John Maa ...

The heart has an internal electrical system that controls the rhythm of the heart. A problem in this system may cause a cardiac arrest. It may cause the heart to stop pumping blood to the brain and ...

More than half of people who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital do not receive immediate CPR, underscoring the urgent need for more widespread knowledge of how to respond when every second ...

Patekar was rushed to Manipal Hospital, where doctors attempted to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for ...