An emergency dispatcher in Massachusetts is being celebrated for helping save the life of a 4-year-old girl. A 911 call came into the Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center earlier this ...

Countless lives have been saved by the standard CPR method of 15 chest compressions for every two rescue breaths. That technique still works, but now trainers are preparing to teach CPR in a way that ...

Learn the essentials of CPR and how to effectively save a life during cardiac emergencies with these critical techniques.

<P> Julia Phillips says she didn't think about her newly acquired CPR training when she dived into a swimming pool last week to rescue a drowning 6-year-old girl and got her breathing again.<P> "I ...

On Wednesday, the American Heart Association, the European Resuscitation Council and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation published a scientific statement in the journal Circulation ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many 13-year-old children have the physical strength to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and even 9-year-olds can begin to learn CPR, according to a new study. Sign ...

Different than a heart attack, a cardiac arrest is a life-threatening medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating. If you're ever on hand when this happens, knowing how to do CPR can help ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed within five minutes of a child's heart stopping nearly doubled their chances of survival, according to preliminary research to be presented at the ...

(WLUK) -- A Fond du Lac school nurse says she is grateful for being in the right place at the right time when she used her CPR training to save a young child at a Wisconsin Dells resort. While ...

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Dramatic body-cam video shows an officer saving a newborn's life with CPR. In November, Patrolman Chris Rudy responded to a distress call where he ...