Doing CPR right away can double or even triple a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest. Learn these CPR steps now so you know what to do if someone is experiencing a life-threatening emergency.

Sudden cardiac arrest is a scary thing, and not just for the person experiencing it. Imagine that someone collapses in front of you. They are desperately gasping for air or not breathing and their ...

When someone suffers from cardiac arrest—an electrical malfunction in your heart that abruptly stops it from beating—knowing how to perform CPR can literally save their life. But more often than not, ...

Before we get into how to correctly perform CPR, it is important to know what CPR is? CPR stands for Cardiopulmonary ...

Each year, 475,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest, an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an irregular heartbeat and disrupts the flow of blood to the brain, lungs and other organs.

Cardiovascular disease is one of the most common causes of death for all ages. "Would you know what to do if a loved one or co-worker were to suffer a heart attack?" asked Russell Hubbard, spokesman ...

Under a 12-foot-tall pulsating heart at Houston's health museum, Regan Puckett instructs 5-year-old Liam Wyker and his 4-year-old brother Sean in the basics of CPR, beginning with the first in a ...

DALLAS (AP) — “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 ...