The American Heart Association has simplified its guidelines for administering cardiac-pulmonary resuscitation. CPR involves a combination of chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breathing. Now, the ...

Increasingly, physicians are using a new technique, extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation—eCPR—to resuscitate patients. The technique involves a machine that withdraws and pumps oxygenated ...

Sudden cardiac arrest kills an estimated 200,000 people a year in the United States, but many of those lives could be saved if ordinary bystanders simply performed CPR, a new study shows. The early ...

All animal procedures were approved by the Monash University Animal Ethics Committee, according to the guidelines of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Code of Practice for ...