A new study by the department of anaesthesiology at the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS), Greater Noida, has questioned the scientific basis of a fundamental step in cardiopulmonary ...

Vermont Business Magazine CPR Therapeutics Inc. (CPR-T), a Putney, Vermont-based development-stage medical device company, announced today that it has received a $1.2M National Science Foundation (NSF ...

High school students would be trained to use defibrillators and have to become certified in CPR to graduate under a renewed ...

In the event of a cardiorespiratory arrest, two actions are crucial for the patient's survival: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation. CPR consists of rhythmically compressing the ...

Researchers examined three time periods—2000 to 2005, 2006 to 2010 and 2011 to 2017—when compression-only CPR was being gradually adopted within Sweden's CPR guidelines. Researchers found ...

A Swedish review of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest data shows rates of bystander CPR nearly doubled; compression-only (or Hands-Only CPR) increased six-fold over an 18 year period; and the chance ...

European guidelines introduced compression-only CPR as an option for bystanders who couldn’t or wouldn’t perform standard CPR involving ventilation in 2005. Then, in 2010, these recommendations became ...