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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

"After a couple of minutes, his eyes cracked open, and his hands moved. He had a pulse," said Mike Cameron, who performed compressions on the toddler.

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 ...

Be prepared! A joint update from the American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics details the latest ...