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 ...

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

A child who receives bystander CPR within the first 5 minutes after a cardiac arrest is nearly twice as likely to survive ...

When Charlie Curtis was just 15 years old, his life changed in an instant. While running a mandatory mile during his physical ...

Saving a life often comes down to the actions we take under emergency medical situations. Gayle Guyardo, host of Bloom, sat ...

Jennifer Jaeger, the St. Louis executive director of the American Heart Association, talks about the importance of CPR during ...