Young children can be taught basic lifesaving skills, such as recognizing a cardiac arrest, calling for help, and performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), concludes a scientific statement from ...

Army Reserve Soldiers with the 801st Field Hospital learned the nuances of providing care to adults, pregnant women, children, and infants when they attended the Basic Life Support class Nov. 7 at ...

Associate Professor Janet Bray receives funding from a Heart Foundation of Australia Fellowship, and grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Resuscitation ...

Research suggests only 39.6% of the global population knows how to perform primary care on patients. It is important to increase these numbers to reduce the number of casualties due to preventable ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to ...

In the second of a series outlining basic life support, Emma Hammett describes how to resuscitate a patient who has collapsed in the dental practice Cardio-respiratory arrest is rare in primary dental ...