Latest cardiopulmonary resuscitation Stories

PITTSBURGH, June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation celebrates National CPR/AED Awareness Week by encouraging everyone to take two steps to help save a life. Get trained in CPR and AEDs ... Find a location near you at http://bit.ly/cpraedweek2011.Spread the word in your community ... Create a short video and share it to win at http://bit.ly/youcansavealifevideo2011 .The 'You Can Save a Life' Video Awareness Contest invites students, parents, teachers,...

WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For 30 years, the national survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) has remained a low six percent. Recognizing the need for expanded awareness of the public health crisis of SCA, the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association (SCAA) is donating 30 life-saving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to nonprofit community organizations across the country as part of the Association's "donAtED 2011" program. SCAA's nationwide network of...

Red Cross Teams Up with Dr. Oz and Sharecare to Launch Lifesaving App WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just in time for the busy summer season, a new smartphone app launched today by the American Red Cross, Dr. Mehmet Oz and the medical website Sharecare makes it even easier for the average person to help in an emergency. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) The "S.O.S. by the American Red Cross" is a free app that provides real-time emergency...

PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 400 students from the School District of Philadelphia demonstrated ways to teach their peers how to save a life. The teenagers showed their novel projects for teaching skills in performing CPR and using an AED (automated external defibrillator) at an event co-sponsored today by the School District and researchers from The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The Student Program for Olympic Resuscitation Training in Schools...

Hospital patients with pneumonia may be at risk of experiencing sudden cardiac arrest, often with few or no warning signs, according to research from the University of Chicago Medical Center under the auspices of the American Heart Association's Get with the Guidelines project.The results of the study will be presented at the American Thoracic Society's 2011 International Conference in Denver."We found a compelling signal that some patients with pneumonia may develop cardiac arrest...

LOS ANGELES, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It started as a typical day for retired Fire Chief Fred Gies, but it would be anything but normal. As he did on so many mornings before, the Lakewood resident had made coffee for his wife Cathy, an administrator for Memorial HealthCare IPA. Later that April afternoon, he was staring at his crossword puzzle and hoping to finally finish it. Suddenly, he began having excruciating chest pains. They continued as Fred started to sweat despite...

By all counts, the 54-year-old man who collapsed on a recent winter night in rural Minnesota would likely have died. He'd suffered a heart attack, and even though he was given continuous CPR and a series of shocks with a defibrillator, the man was without a pulse for 96 minutes. But this particular instance of cardiac arrest (http://www.mayoclinic.org/heart-attack/), reported first in Mayo Clinic Proceedings (http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com) online, turned out to be highly unusual:...

ATLANTA, Georgia, April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - ACLS Blended Learning Solution to Provide Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Education Through Convenient, Integrated Solution Mosby's eLearning, a pioneer in providing eLearning solutions to more than 1,300 healthcare organizations, and the American Safety & Health Institute (ASHI) today introduced the Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Blended Learning Solution, a training certification solution aimed at...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Young adult patients with genetic heart diseases, such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), substantially benefitted from therapeutic hypothermia, which could further extend the role for this treatment strategy in new patient populations.For patients with HCM, despite rapid cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with defibrillation, survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has been unfavorable."Therapeutic hypothermia is an effective survival and...

Defibtech Lifeline View AED's color screen shows how to help victims of cardiac arrest. Louisville, KY (Vocus/PRWEB) April 01, 2011 ORSupply.com, the largest online marketplace for surgical supplies and medical devices, is now selling the Defibtech AED Lifeline View, the first device with a full-color video screen that shows users how to perform external defibrillation, rescue breathing and CPR. AEDs (automated external defibrillators) revive victims of sudden cardiac arrest caused...