The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) provides recommendations on neonatal resuscitation training and practice, which includes a template for a decision-making algorithm. We ...

IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

In the event of a cardiorespiratory arrest, two actions are crucial for the patient's survival: cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation. CPR consists of rhythmically compressing the ...

On October 20, 2020, the American Heart Association (AHA) released online its latest update of the Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. The update included ...

Using neighborhood and local data in combination with existing information sources creates a more accurate prediction on a patient's recovery prospects after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), ...

The proportion of bystanders (as opposed to emergency medical services) performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on individuals experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has steadily ...

The prestigious PLOS ONE journal has published an innovative method that seeks to improve the quality of chest compressions and which was developed at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country ...

The cardiac-resuscitation program in Brookline, Massachusetts, was planned as pne such pilot project, whose purpose is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness with which closed-chest cardiac ...

To address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers developed a new scoring method that uses only data available from prehospital resuscitations to accurately predict ...

Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger, a cardiac electrophysiologist at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, reviews a patient's health record. Goldberger and Dr. Leonardo Tamariz, also a cardiac ...