DALLAS – Updating the way everyday people do CPR, new recommendations urge many more chest compressions for victims of cardiac arrest. The revised guidelines issued Monday by the American Heart ...

Until recently, CPR guidelines for drowning victims focused on chest compressions. But now, the American Heart Association ...

The guidelines for basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation are being changed to make rescue efforts simpler, more effective and easier to teach. Starting next year, the standard CPR course offered by ...

“Push hard, push fast” next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice. Putting the emphasis on chest compressions ...

DALLAS – New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first ...

according to new guidelines being released Monday by the American Heart Association. For the first time in decades, the heart association is shaking up its "ABC" system for administering CPR ...

The American Heart Association is re-arranging the ABCs of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in its 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency ...

The guidelines also say an AED can be used, if one is available, after the person has been removed from the water. But CPR ...

s new guidelines, released Monday, say that laypeople should be encouraged to do “Hands-Only CPR.” A study published online Friday in Lancet concludes that patients treated with chest ...

Make sure you're prepared -- take a CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) class and get trained to use an automated external defibrillator, or AED. It could mean the difference between life and death.

The new guidelines drop the requirement that the layperson providing emergency CPR check for a pulse. Studies have found that some 35 percent of the time people were wrong about whether the victim ...

Dallas — New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first ...