TUCSON, Ariz. – The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Victims of cardiac arrest were twice as likely to survive when given continuous chest compressions by bystanders, according to a study released Sunday by two Arizona researchers. Those ...

A study published March 17, 2007 in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost medical journals, finds that the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting are almost twice as high ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Defibtech’s recall of its automated continuous chest compression device as class I, the most ...

Scottsdale’s emergency responders are spreading the word on a life-saving technique. The method is called continuous chest compressions, or CCC, and it’s an alternative to traditional cardiopulmonary ...

April 17, 2006 — Editor's Note: Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) — employing chest compressions but no ventilations — improves survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to the results of ...

Dallas, TX - Closing the immense gap between how often cardiopulmonary resuscitationcould be initiated by witnesses to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the number of times it actually happens, ...

History: Sudden cardiac arrests kill over 400,000 people every year in the United States. Many people who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest could have survived if two critical steps had been taken: 911 ...

One tool, the video laryngoscope, helps crews easily navigate a tube to secure an airway and provide oxygen quickly and efficiently The department also purchased a machine for conducting continuous ...