Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CPR, especially when done immediately, can double or triple a person’s survival chances. (Getty Images) According to the AHA, ...

Six in 10 U.S. adults feel comfortable taking charge and giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), according to the results of a survey released by the American Heart Association. The online survey ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s one thing to know that emergencies happen, to be trained and prepared in case there is a life-threatening medical issue. It’s ...

SAN ANTONIO – Diamond Garza said CPR can be as simple as singing the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. “There’s a need for people to know what to do,” Garza, a CPR instructor at Life Enrichment ...

Black or Hispanic adults who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest outside the hospital are substantially less likely than their white peers to receive lifesaving care from a bystander, preliminary ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR -- rapid, deep ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Overall, the relative likelihood ...

DALLAS, July 26, 2023 — Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new ...

Worldwide interest in CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, skyrocketed following Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2, according to the American ...