"Anyone can learn CPR - and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ...

Medical emergencies can happen anywhere—at home, at work, on the road, or during everyday activities. In those critical ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DALLAS — New guidelines out today switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The ...

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, ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - More than 300,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest every year in this country, and 90% are fatal. “Sudden cardiac arrest is a major killer in the United States,” said James ...

The heart has an internal electrical system that controls the rhythm of the heart. A problem in this system may cause a cardiac arrest. It may cause the heart to stop pumping blood to the brain and ...

A dramatic rescue in Dubai has gone viral after emergency responders successfully revived a man who suffered a sudden heart attack on a roadside.

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 ...