Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person's chance of surviving cardiac arrest while receiving CPR declines from 22% after one minute of chest compressions to less ...

What many are calling a miracle brought a Wichita Falls man back to life after nearly an hour without a pulse.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of ...

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 findings indicate television CPR scenes frequently mislead viewers about who needs CPR, where cardiac arrests occur, and how CPR should be performed. Study: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and ...

When cardiac arrest strikes outside of a hospital, survival rates remain unacceptably low, often because CPR is not ...

Asian adults in the United States who suffer cardiac arrest are less likely to survive than White adults, even when given bystander CPR, a new study finds. Asian adults have similar rates of bystander ...

A nurse's swift CPR revived a truck driver suffering a suspected cardiac arrest on a highway. She continued treatment en ...

A recent, unexpected cardiac episode of NBA star LeBron James' son Bronny James sheds light on the dangers of cardiac arrest. The 18-year-old was hospitalized after a cardiac event during a workout at ...

CPR can save lives, but its ability to restore heart function goes from slim to none in a shockingly short time, a new study finds. How short? A person's chance of surviving cardiac arrest while ...