More than 800 Grand Rapids Public Schools students will learn hands-only CPR this year with the help of new kits provided by ...

Think you know how to perform CPR properly because you've seen it on TV? You probably don't, a new study has warned.

Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...

Hands-only CPR is somehow not the norm in scripted television ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a vital skill anyone can perform. It is administered to an unconscious person who is not breathing normally.

Two minutes into cardiac arrest—when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body's organs—brain cells begin ...

Many TV depictions of CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not only made errors in correct technique but may skew public ...

Checking for a pulse and giving rescue breaths are just some of the ways TV inaccurately depicts CPR for sudden cardiac ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

Lastly, we found that almost 65% of the people receiving hands-only CPR and 73% of rescuers performing CPR were white and ...

TV shows portray CPR incorrectly in most episodes, spreading outdated methods that discourage lifesaving action.

Every year, more than 350,000 instances of cardiac arrest occur outside U.S. hospitals, according to the American Heart Association. These medical emergencies can occur anywhere from private homes and ...