HealthDay News — Guidance has been updated for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care, as presented in articles published online Oct. 22 in Circulation.

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 ...

A study of more than 17,238 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients found that nearly all survivals were achieved within 35 minutes of performing cardiopulmonary respiration and that there was little ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The American Heart Association reported that seven in 10 emergencies that require CPR happen outside the home. A recent study found a disturbing trend in bystander CPR, ...