Tommy Chan said he plans to live “my life the fullest from here on out” to repay Tawnya Shimizu, who gave him CPR after he ...

First responders have training sessions coming up in Oceanside and Serra Mesa. They were at the beach in Encinitas on Wednesday.

A timely start of CPR following cardiac arrest is critical. Mortality increases by 10% for every minute that CPR is delayed. Even if 911 is called immediately, first responders can be minutes away.

For the more than 350,000 Americans each year who suffer cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, the prognosis is not always an optimistic one. But quick action with CPR and a defibrillator can be key.

If you suspect that someone has gone into cardiac arrest, ... If they don’t know CPR, have them watch you first. “That’s what we do in the emergency room,” Sasson said.

Health experts share the importance of knowing what to do in the event of cardiac arrest as Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin continues to recover at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances ...

For example, white men who experienced cardiac arrest and received CPR from a bystander were 41% more likely to survive, the best odds of any group. Meanwhile, Black women had the lowest survival ...

Helping someone in cardiac arrest is not as daunting as it seems. By Gina Kolata Before 1958, there was no such thing as CPR. If someone’s heart stopped because of cardiac arrest, that person ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have been reported 8-11 and are due, in part, to lower incidence of bystander CPR in communities with populations that ...

Finally, our finding that compression-only CPR is not significantly better than standard CPR does not apply to cardiac arrest caused by trauma, respiratory failure, or intoxication or to children ...