WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. biomedical engineer developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that he says promises to be more effective than standard CPR. Leslie ...

A biomedical engineer at Purdue University announced on Sept. 5 he has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that promises to be more effective than standard CPR ...

We would all like to believe that in the event a stranger was experiencing cardiac arrest, we would not hesitate to act. However, recent statistics published in the Journal of the American Heart ...

Until now, not much research had been done to find the best CPR methods from data that accounted for both compression rate and chest depth. Now, new data gives some exciting new answers. Sep 25, 2019 ...

As humans begin to colonize space, it's inevitable that some will suffer a cardiac arrest. Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives -- and researchers say they've now ...

Since having quadruple bypass heart surgery a few years earlier, Dave Bol had adopted a lifestyle of walking. Three to four miles per day, he would trek around Grandville. Then one evening a decade ...

Scottsdale’s emergency responders are spreading the word on a life-saving technique. The method is called continuous chest compressions, or CCC, and it’s an alternative to traditional cardiopulmonary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tel Aviv University Medical Student Cole Ettingoff lays on the table inside the garage of the Germantown Fire Station, 3031 Forest ...

ROCKFORD — A new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation that the Rockford Fire Department is using on adult cardiac arrest patients saw its best results in the past five years in February. Of the ...

"Anyone can learn CPR - and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ...