When a person's breathing or heartbeat stops, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is an essential life-saving procedure. Rescue breaths and chest compressions are used to keep vital organs ...

Different than a heart attack, a cardiac arrest is a life-threatening medical emergency where the heart suddenly stops beating. If you're ever on hand when this happens, knowing how to do CPR can help ...

Every year on October 16, communities worldwide come together for WRAH, a global initiative aimed at raising awareness about ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. To change this alarming statistic, The Sunday Telegraph is calling on the state government to fund ...

NITU Gupta comes from a medical family and assumed all her relatives knew CPR — but when her son went into cardiac arrest, she discovered nobody else knew what to do. Luckily Dr Gupta, a dentist, had ...

A motion was passed at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual conference today backing the mandatory training of schoolchildren in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques. The branch noted that a ...

The parents of a newborn baby who died during cardiac arrest have thrown their support behind a new book – aimed at teaching parents CPR. Noah Swales was just three days old when he died, after ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The hot weather brings an increased risk for our hearts. According to the Fresno Fire Department, crews respond to more calls about heat exhaustion, drowning and cardiac ...