Researchers at a cardiology conference in Madrid detailed a new, more effective CPR method for astronauts to use for emergencies in weightless environments. File Photo by Joe Marino/UPI As humans ...

Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives – and researchers say they’ve now come up with a better method. Automatic chest compression carried out by a mechanical piston ...

More people can survive a cardiac arrest when emergency medical workers use a new resuscitation method that starts with a round of 200 chest compressions before a defibrillator shock, US researchers ...

Since having quadruple bypass heart surgery a few years earlier, Dave Bol had adopted a lifestyle of walking. Three to four miles per day, he would trek around Grandville. Then one evening a decade ...

You may want to double-check your CPR skills. While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A biomedical engineer at Purdue University has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that promises to be more effective than standard CPR because it ...

A biomedical engineer at Purdue University announced on Sept. 5 he has developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that promises to be more effective than standard CPR ...

Minneapolis/St. Paul (Mar. 1, 2011) – A five-year clinical trial led by University of Minnesota Medical School researchers has led to a new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that improves ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A U.S. biomedical engineer developed a new method to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation that he says promises to be more effective than standard CPR. Leslie ...

Objectives: Mechanical CPR is increasingly being used for field out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) care. However, existing literature does not identify a survival benefit of mechanical versus ...