People who suffer cardiac arrests in high-income, white neighborhoods are almost twice as likely to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) than people who live in low-income, black neighborhoods, ...
DURHAM, N.C. – Annual rates of CPR training in the United States are low and vary widely across the country, but the communities most in need of training are the least likely to be trained, according ...
More than a third of adults have never learnt any essential CPR skills and leading health organisations are concerned that training rates remain 'stubbornly low'. Health chiefs are using today's ...
A organization of paramedics in Thunder Bay, Ont., hope a new initiative they're launching this fall will turn the tide on a low rate of CPR response in the city, and ultimately, save lives. In ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - "Hands-only" CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is usually as effective as traditional CPR that includes mouth-to-mouth breathing - but the odds that cardiac arrest ...
WASHINGTON — During CPR-AED awareness week, MedStar Health is teaming up with local sports teams to educate people on how to use an AED, or automated external defibrillator, and give CPR. The hospital ...
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12, 2016 -- CPR increases the chance of survival after sudden cardiac arrest, yet knowledge of this life-saving procedure is low in many communities, especially among older adults, ...
Annual rates of CPR training in the United States are low and vary widely across the country, but the communities most in need of training are the least likely to be trained, according to a new study.
Patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in low-income black neighborhoods were significantly less likely to receive bystander CPR when compared with those in high-income white ...