A man whose life was saved by a defibrillator after he had a heart attack while cycling in a West Yorkshire village has ...

An air ambulance charity has given defibrillators to staff in an effort to get more of them out into the community. Thames ...

March 26, 2003 — Patients who have been in cardiac arrest for more than 5 minutes before receiving emergency care may respond better if they are treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prior ...

Tauranga man who collapsed on a tennis court and stopped breathing for six minutes is alive today thanks to his mates’ swift ...

Tina Bergen, an advanced life support instructor, and Grant Louie, a cardiac arrest survivor, perform CPR and use an ...

March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...

More chest compressions from CPR and fewer shocks from a defibrillator may be better at saving lives after cardiac arrest, according to a new study. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart is unable to ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

More people learning CPR has a direct result in the number of people surviving a cardiac arrest and "we are really proud of ...

David Mort, from Scarborough, is commended after having to use his CPR skills twice in just a week. Pupils were taught CPR and how to use a defibrillator by Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics. The ...

Ethan King was an 18-year-old college freshman when he almost died after experiencing cardiac arrest. One year later, he's ...

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