TUCSON, Ariz. – The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than ...

Scottsdale’s emergency responders are spreading the word on a life-saving technique. The method is called continuous chest compressions, or CCC, and it’s an alternative to traditional cardiopulmonary ...

Two large-scale studies published in the Dec. 18 issue of the American Heart Association’s medical journal, Circulation, report that the chances of surviving cardiac arrest are no better – and may be ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital skill anyone can perform. It is administered to an unconscious person who is ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What is continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? Does it replace the CPR I learned years ago? Continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), known as compression-only CPR or ...

History: Sudden cardiac arrests kill over 400,000 people every year in the United States. Many people who suffer a sudden cardiac arrest could have survived if two critical steps had been taken: 911 ...

A free training class for Continuous Chest Compression CPR will be held tomorrow — Wednesday Aug. 4 — at University Medical Center. The class, sponsored by the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart ...

Dallas, TX - Closing the immense gap between how often cardiopulmonary resuscitationcould be initiated by witnesses to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the number of times it actually happens, ...

Hands-only CPR doesn't just eliminate the "yuck factor." A new study shows it can save more lives. It's the first large American study to show more adults survived cardiac arrest when a bystander gave ...

Patients who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are more likely to survive if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is performed by a witness. Whether continuous-chest-compression (CCC) ...

An hourlong free training class in chest-compression-only CPR is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday, Nov. 3. The class will be held at DuVal Auditorium, University Medical Center (UMC), 1501 N.