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 ...

A chest wall deformity is an abnormality in the ribs, sternum (or breastbone), cartilage, and other tissues in your child’s chest. The chest wall protects vital organs like the heart and lungs and ...

If nonsurgical treatments do not relieve a person’s thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms, a doctor may suggest surgery to relieve compression in the thoracic outlet. Surgery may include a first rib ...

There are two main types of chest wall deformity: pectus carinatum, or pigeon chest, and pectus excavatum, or funnel chest. The former pushes out; the latter sinks in. Though there can be a genetic ...

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. A Japanese study found that people ...

The chance that a person in cardiac arrest will survive increases when rescuers doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) spend more time giving chest compressions, according to a multi-center study ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Chest compressions before defibrillation in patients with sudden cardiac arrest is equally successful as immediate treatment with an electrical defibrillator, according to a new ...

"We tested different ways of giving chest compressions aboard a 'flying laboratory' which recreated the microgravity conditions that astronauts experience in space. Use of a particular type of ...

Patients experiencing non-trauma–related cardiac arrest derive no added protection against death or neurological damage when emergency medical services (EMS) providers use continuous chest ...