Dramatic TV rescues notwithstanding, the stark truth is that people who go into cardiac arrest are usually doomed. CPR is almost always futile. Defibrillators can shock a heart back to life, but only ...

In the second report, Benjamin S. Abella, M.D., M.Phil., of the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether well-trained hospital staff perform CPR ...

When family members were allowed to watch emergency personnel try but fail to resuscitate a loved one, the relatives were less likely to have post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety or depression much ...

Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue added more than a million dollars worth of life-saving equipment to its fleet of fire trucks in January, but even with those additions life-saving efforts still fail more than ...

Many caregivers perform CPR incorrectly and fail to restart stopped hearts by not adhering to strict guidelines governing the frequency and force of chest compressions, a pair of studies said on ...