HealthDay News — Guidance has been updated for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiovascular care, as presented in articles published online Oct. 22 in Circulation.

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support, but may be less confident with basic life support skills that are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article, ...

Michael Fraley breaks down what paramedics need to know about what’s changed — and what hasn’t — in the new resuscitation guidance ...

Philadelphia, PA - The largest-ever study of in-hospital cardiac arrests challenges the prevailing medical opinion about the patterns and causes of these life-threatening events [1]. Reporting their ...

Evidence-based recommendations on VA ECMO for extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) in adults with refractory cardiac arrest. This involves using an artificial lung to oxygenate the ...

SCT procedural volume and associated hospitalizations are increasing in the United States and worldwide. 8, 9 It is imperative to identify and evaluate the risk factors associated with IHCA requiring ...

Following up on a study that found widespread failures in simulated child resuscitation among emergency room staff, a research team reports that it doesn't take much more than a mock trauma drill to ...

UnitedHealth Group Inc. , Boston Scientific Corp. , Medtronic Plc. and the University of Minnesota are working together to distribute 3,000 of what they called "light" ventilators, newly invented to ...