On TV it always seems clear and simple. A patient in the hospital goes into cardiac arrest and the medical team springs into action. After a few tense moments of furious activity, and only after all ...

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 ...

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 ...

A person's chance of surviving while receiving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest in hospital declines rapidly from 22% after one minute to less than 1% after 39 minutes, finds a ...

New long-term data support a strategy of chest-compression-only CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) for bystanders who are uncomfortable or untrained in giving rescue breathing. The latest ...

If you were to have needed CPR, the best place you could be is in a hospital, right? Not exactly. A new study found that few people survive cardiac arrest after CPR, even in the hospital. Out of the ...

Patients receiving dialysis have higher rates of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and worse long-term survival after discharge than other patients, according to a national cohort study published ...

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 ...