Sudden cardiac arrest kills hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. each year, often because bystanders don't know how to ...

MedStar Health marked CPR & AED Awareness Week with its third annual training event held at Montgomery Blair High School.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardiac arrest happens when the heart malfunctions and abruptly stops beating. When the heart stops beating, the lack of blood ...

More than 1,500 people joined the Capital Region Heart Walk to learn CPR and raise money for research and local health efforts, according to the American Heart Association.The American Heart ...

BACKGROUND: Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a key link in the chain of survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). While bystander CPR initiated within 10 minutes is ...

Women who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) application regardless of the racial and ethnic ...

For National CPR and AED Awareness Week, Oregonians whose lives were saved by CPR are sharing their stories in hopes of ...

(CNN) — Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. The study ...

About 356,000 Americans suffer from a sudden cardiac arrest each year. It's a tough one to survive, but the amazing comeback of NFL player Damar Hamlin showed it's possible. As a result, interest in ...

Not all CPR is equal in terms of augmenting survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to an analysis of US registry data that uncovered racial/ethnic and sex differences. Native ...

Bystander CPR is associated with higher survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but its association is weakest among Black individuals and women, according to a recent study. Researchers ...