The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics update recommendations for untrained lay rescuers and trained rescuers resuscitating adults and children who have drowned.

Automated cardiac arrest detection using wearables could facilitate early help. In the DETECT-1 study, an algorithm for circulatory arrest detection was developed using wrist-derived ...

Starting CPR within the first 10 minutes of someone having a cardiac arrest at home or in public may greatly improve their chances for survival and protect their brain function, ...

DALLAS, Nov. 11, 2024 — Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival ... experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Sarah Perman, M.D., M.S.C.E., FAHA, chair of the American Heart Association's Council on Cardiopulmonary ...

The study of more than a half million adults in the U.S. who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from ... according to the American Heart Association.

The American Heart Association urges everyone learn the lifesaving skills of CPR and join its Nation of Lifesavers®, a movement to double survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest by 2030.

The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances ...

Disparities in emergency department (ED) mortality and patient outcomes after cardiac arrest in the United States emphasize an urgent need for equitable healthcare resources and policies.