It only takes two hands to save a life. Your two hands, pushing strongly on the chest bone in a regular beat, can take the place of a heart that has stopped. In essence, you become the heart, pumping ...
A 52-year-old jogger collapses on his morning run and is found unresponsive without a pulse. How hands-only CPR saved his ...
If you find someone unconscious or someone collapses around you, what do you do? They might be in cardiac arrest, and if that's the case, you'll want to to hands-only CPR right away. Here are tips ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) -This week is National CPR and AED Awareness Week, spotlighting life-saving skills. According to the American Heart Association, about 90% of people who suffer cardiac arrest ...
Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...
When a patient is admitted to the hospital in the U.S., there’s a standard question physicians like me are supposed to ask: “If your heart stops beating, do you want us to do CPR?” On the surface, ...
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Know What to Do: CPR and AED Basics for Everyone
Last year in June, when a woman collapsed on an escalator at Buffalo's airport, and Phil Clough, who is an experienced emergency medical responder knew exactly what to do. He and a bystander, as the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Paging script-writers: Pumping on a patient's chest during CPR while a stretcher careens down a hospital hallway works just fine, Chinese researchers have found. By ...
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