CPR’s mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions have saved countless lives, but the chest pumps alone may be just as effective during medical emergencies. more A Japanese study found that ...

High quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) increases survival outcomes. Smaller rescuers have been found to be at risk of providing inadequate CPR, particularly relating to chest compression ...

Automatic chest compression devices are routinely used on Earth by doctors in restricted environments such as emergency helicopter, or where prolonged CPR needs to be carried out over a longer period ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

Bystanders are less likely to give life-saving CPR to women having a cardiac arrest in public than men, leading to more women dying from the common health emergency, researchers said Monday.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If someone appears to be in cardiac arrest, doctors stress the importance of helping. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) Many medical ...

CPR mannequins are getting breasts -- with the goal of saving women's lives. The so-called Womanikin is an attachment for flat-chested CPR dummies that aims to change the finding that women are 27% ...

People are less likely to perform CPR on a woman. The American Heart Association is trying to change that. If you suffer cardiac arrest, CPR can double your chance of survival. Yet women who ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. Most people know that – it’s a statistic that has been repeated enough times that it almost loses its weight. What is spoken ...

A randomized trial shows no difference in adult patient outcomes with the two approaches. A previous nonrandomized study showed improved outcomes from adult cardiac arrest with compression-only ...