CPR techniques have changed; classes can update people's skills

Someone arriving on the scene of an injured individual might try to remember how to administer CPR, knowing that techniques ...

Colorado woman survives cardiac arrest, relearns CPR in rural mountain community

A Clear Creek County woman is relearning CPR weeks after she says the technique saved her life. Kristie Pellitteri collapsed ...
WHYY

In young children, CPR with rescue breathing leads to better outcomes, CHOP study says

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers looked at data for rescue breathing vs. chest compression CPR for kids in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. A person participates in an American Red Cross ...
Medscape

Bystander Rescue Breathing CPR in Kids Tied to Better Survival

Children who receive CPR with both rescue breathing and compressions from a bystander have greater odds of survival without serious brain damage than if they receive CPR with compressions only, ...
Healio

CPR with rescue breathing preferable to compression only in pediatric cardiac arrest

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Despite this, “compression-only CPR is currently the most commonly performed type of CPR for pediatric cardiac ...
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CHOP Researchers Find Bystander CPR with Rescue Breathing Leads to Better Outcomes in Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — When children and adolescents go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting, CPR with rescue breathing – rather than CPR using only chest compressions ...
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Dispatcher guides family through CPR on 4-year-old who stopped breathing: Listen to the 911 call

An emergency dispatcher in Massachusetts is being celebrated for helping save the life of a 4-year-old girl. A 911 call came into the Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center earlier this ...
News Medical

Rescue breathing CPR for pediatric cardiac arrest has superior outcomes, analysis shows

Rescue breathing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) had superior neurological outcomes compared with compression-only CPR or no CPR at all in infants, children and adolescents, according to a new ...
Science Daily

Bystander CPR with rescue breathing leads to better outcomes in pediatric cardiac arrest: Study

When children and adolescents go into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting, CPR with rescue breathing -- rather than CPR using only chest compressions -- leads to better outcomes, according to ...