A technique frequently portrayed in dramatic resuscitation scenes in television and film is among several alternative methods to CPR that have shown no benefit in saving lives in a review by ...

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...

Continuous chest compression, touted as the new way to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, was not an improvement over standard CPR, according to findings published in the New England Journal of ...

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) is associated with improved neurological outcomes, compared with standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), even with prolonged resuscitation and ...

A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it increases nourishing ...

Neutral trial results for repositioning chest compressions based on ultrasound ...

A pilot study of the first proposed major change in decades to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) suggests that performing the maneuver while patients are on their stomachs offers far better ...

A biomedical engineer at Purdue University announced on Sept. 5 he has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that promises to be more effective than standard CPR ...

This project was approved by the Committee on Animal Experimentation at the University of Minnesota, and the animals were managed in accordance with the American Physiological Society, institutional ...

Baltimore, MD - In a small pilot study evaluating the feasibility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) administered in the prone position, investigators report "reverse" CPR generated higher mean ...