Of all out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in residential areas of Vienna and Copenhagen from 2016-2021, one-third of those cardiac arrests occurred in public housing communities. That occurrence jumped ...

Investigators found that there is a marked lack of diversity in the mannikins depicted by public social media accounts of organizations that administer cardiopulmonary (CPR) education. Less than 10% ...

When someone collapses in front of witnesses, the chances of receiving potentially lifesaving CPR may partly depend on the color of their skin, a new study suggests. Researchers found that when Black ...

Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Overall, the relative likelihood ...

One in five people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest may describe lucid experiences of death that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and on the brink of ...

A few months ago, a friend of mine collapsed as he was about to enter a grocery store near his home in England. Two women who were in the parking lot rushed to help him and attempted to perform ...

People have long talked about having near-death experiences in which they felt they were looking down on themselves while others tried to save them. Now researchers have documented some of those ...

National CPR and AED Awareness Week, held annually from June 1 to 7, emphasizes the critical importance of mastering cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques and using automated external ...

Note: This presentation is titled “AWAreness during REsuscitation II: a multicenter study of consciousness and awareness in cardiac arrest,” and is scheduled to be presented during the resuscitation ...