What Is CPR and Who Needs It?

What is the purpose of CPR? The purpose of CPR is to apply pressure to an individual’s sternum (breastbone) so that the heart ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Rhode Island 911 dispatchers rarely give callers CPR guidance

Emergency response dispatchers in Rhode Island seldom instruct callers on how to perform CPR, which could save hundreds more cardiac arrest victims annually, according to ProPublica. Rhode Island’s ...
Becker's Hospital Review

CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be conducted for a minimum of 35 minutes, study finds

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 ...
TCTMD

Lengthy CPR for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Tied to Worse Outcomes

Nearly a quarter of patients who experience in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) survive to discharge if CPR quickly results in return to spontaneous circulation, Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation ...
Healio

Longer-duration CPR does not improve survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A person’s chance of survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest decreases with CPR duration. The data could help ...
inforum

Study: Fewer cancer patients pick CPR after video demo

Dying cancer patients are less likely to want aggressive end-of-life care if they watch a short video about CPR than if they simply hear about it, according to a U.S. study. The researchers, whose ...