Key takeaways: Asian adults in the U.S. may have worse survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vs. white adults. The difference occurred despite similar rates of bystander CPR, so the driver of ...

Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new research published today ...

Asian adults have similar rates of bystander CPR after a cardiac arrest, but are 8% less likely to survive to hospital discharge compared with White adults. Photo by manseok Kim/Pixabay.

Among those cases, more than 58,000 people survived -- about 1 in 10. Around 40% of cardiac arrest victims received CPR from a bystander before paramedics could arrive, researchers found.

Members of the Duke University men’s basketball and football teams participated in American Heart Association Hands-Only CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) trainings to learn the correct rate and ...

Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation.

However, even when CPR was started up to 10 minutes after cardiac arrest, there was still a significant survival benefit compared to individuals who did not receive CPR from a bystander.” ...