Approximately 350,000 people in the U.S. experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year and a staggering 90% of them ...

Approximately 350,000 people in the U.S. experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, and a staggering 90% of them do not survive. Doctors with the American Heart Association want to ...

While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare—about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S.—the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to be under 20%.