Women who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) application regardless of the racial and ethnic ...

Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] I have a love/hate relationship with how healthcare is ...

People need to get comfortable performing lifesaving chest compressions on female bodies, and training on breasted manikins ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -- February is American Heart Month, and the American Heart Association (AHA) is spreading awareness of heart health and CPR education. More than 350,000 people experience ...

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The sooner a lay rescuer (bystander) starts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a person having a cardiac arrest at home or in public, up to 10 minutes after the arrest, the better the chances of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR improved survival to hospital discharge. The ...

Bystander CPR is associated with higher survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but its association is weakest among Black individuals and women, according to a recent study. Researchers ...

Not all CPR is equal in terms of augmenting survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to an analysis of US registry data that uncovered racial/ethnic and sex differences. Native ...