IIf you ask many older physicians in emergency medicine what "CCR" stands for, they might talk to you about a rock band that was popular in the 1960s and 1970s that still gets some play on the "oldies ...

To address out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Osaka Metropolitan University researchers developed a new scoring method that uses only data available from prehospital resuscitations to accurately predict ...

"They immediately start cardiopulmonary resuscitation with breathing and chest compression, and connect to a defibrillator," ...

The proportion of bystanders (as opposed to emergency medical services) performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on individuals experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has steadily ...

Sept. 4, 2003 (Vienna) — Patients who are successfully resuscitated after sudden cardiac arrest face about a 30% risk of recurrent events, but investigators for the Leiden Out of Hospital Cardiac ...

Dr. Jeffrey Goldberger, a cardiac electrophysiologist at UHealth, the University of Miami Health System, reviews a patient's health record. Goldberger and Dr. Leonardo Tamariz, also a cardiac ...

Using neighborhood and local data in combination with existing information sources creates a more accurate prediction on a patient's recovery prospects after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), ...

The cardiac-resuscitation program in Brookline, Massachusetts, was planned as pne such pilot project, whose purpose is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness with which closed-chest cardiac ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Bend Fire & Rescue crews were busy learning a new technique Friday that can save more lives during their Advanced Cardiac Life Support training ...