Cardiac arrest happens when the heart stops pumping blood properly, cutting off oxygen to the brain and other vital organs.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Asian adults in the U.S. may have worse survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vs. white adults. The ...

DALLAS, July 26, 2023 — Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new ...

Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new research published today in ...

People suffering from sudden cardiac arrest are more likely to survive if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AED) are used as soon as possible. However, in an ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

Cardiac arrest happens when the heart stops pumping blood properly, cutting off oxygen to the brain and other vital organs.

CPR can be a lifesaver in a medical emergency. looked at research from and other sources such as the to determine which factors affect survival after CPR. When done correctly, cardiopulmonary ...

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her ...

(CNN) — Survival rates for Black women are far worse after bystander CPR than for White men, according to a study published this month in the American Heart Association journal Circulation. The study ...

Nationally, 10.5% of people without trauma injuries whose pulses stopped in 2024 were later released from a hospital. It was 18.9% in Shawnee County.