Among the more than 7,400 adults in the study who received CPR before an ambulance arrived, 14.7% also received bystander defibrillation and 85.3% did not.

Portable defibrillator, automatic CPR machine help save hiker in cardiac arrest 02:30. Alan Zacharias chose Mt. Bierstadt as his first Colorado 14er, after hitting several other famous hikes like ...

More chest compressions from CPR and fewer shocks from a defibrillator may be better at saving lives after cardiac arrest, according to a new study. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart is unable ...

However, of that 8.3 percent, those who received bystander CPR had a 30 percent lower risk of subsequent death from any cause at one year after the event, a 38 percent lower risk of brain damage ...

But defibrillators have to be applied quickly, and so it is important to have more than one rescuer — one to do CPR while the other gets the defibrillator. “If you are doing CPR you should ...

CPR, defibrillation, heart tumor removal—and a surgeon who pioneered them all Claude Beck It was 1947, and Beck—the first professor of cardiovascular surgery not just at Western Reserve University ...

Patients who have been in cardiac arrest for more than 5 minutes before receiving emergency care may respond better if they are treated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) prior to ...

DALLAS, – Death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can be significantly reduced if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation are administered before emergency medical services (EMS ...

When the rates of bystander-initiated CPR and defibrillation increased, outcomes improved for people with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to results from two studies published in JAMA.A ...

March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...

The portable defibrillator was only about 40 feet from where his daughter collapsed, Laman told lawmakers. To Eric Bell’s family, CPR is a lifesaver that needs to be taught statewide.