Hundreds of students from two secondary schools in Birmingham and the Black Country have been taught life-saving skills ...

Also, chest compressions are tiring, notes Turlington. So, if you have help, switch places every minute or two to ensure each person gets a rest and can perform better during their turn.

Check for breathing. If they are not breathing, start CPR. Perform 30 chest compressions. Perform two rescue breaths. Repeat until an ambulance or automated external defibrillator (AED) arrives.

Skidmore had just reached the wooden bridge spanning Avalanche Creek when his brother took off running down the streambank.

Research shows that with adults, hands-only CPR is almost as effective as CPR with the breaths. But if you do want to attempt them, you're going to do 30 chest compressions followed by two breaths.

EVERETT, Wash. — Even days after saving an 11-year-old boy from drowning in Silver Lake in South Everett's Thornton A.

Minimize interruptions in chest compressions before and after each shock. Resume CPR beginning with compressions immediately after each shock.

Dr MKO Abimbola What is CPR? — CPR stands for “car­diopulmonary resusci­tation.” It is a way to get blood and oxygen moving throughout the body of someone whose heart has stopped working ...

People who suffer cardiac arrest were less likely to die in subsequent years when bystanders performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation using chest compressions only, a new study found. That builds on ...

The Kettering Health Mobile CPR Unit at Dayton Metro Library is expected to pass over 10,000 visitors this July. According to the American Heart Association, about 90 percent of people who suffer from ...

As a certified CPR instructor and registered nurse, Irving sprang into action by directing someone to call 911 and immediately started chest compressions on the pulseless child.

Bystanders are less likely to give women who go into cardiac arrest chest compressions in public places due to anxiety about touching their breasts, according to a new study. Research by St John ...