Think you know how to perform CPR properly because you've seen it on TV? You probably don't, a new study has warned.

Worldwide interest in CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, skyrocketed following Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2, according to the American ...

The American Heart Association recently revised its CPR guidelines concerning the need for more chest compressions between mouth-to mouth-resuscitation attempts. The old standard of 15 compressions to ...

Houston 911 dispatchers began teaching a simpler procedure today to panicked callers trying to revive adults in cardiac arrest. In a reversal of long-standing policy here and around the nation, ...

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12, 2016 -- CPR increases the chance of survival after sudden cardiac arrest, yet knowledge of this life-saving procedure is low in many communities, especially among older adults, ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

(CNN) — Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Overall, the relative ...

Black or Hispanic adults who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest outside the hospital are substantially less likely than their white peers to receive lifesaving care from a bystander, preliminary ...