Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CPR, especially when done immediately, can double or triple a person’s survival chances. (Getty Images) According to the AHA, ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA - More than 350,000 Americans suffer from out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) each year. It strikes at work, in the grocery store, on the soccer field, and even at home, where ...

Kids Need CPR More Promptly Than Adults Following Cardiac Arrest By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Thousands of U.S. kids each year collapse from cardiac ...

Black or Hispanic adults who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest outside the hospital are substantially less likely than their white peers to receive lifesaving care from a bystander, preliminary ...

Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

New consumer survey findings from the American Heart Association show that nearly six in every ten American adults still ...

DALLAS, July 26, 2023 — Despite similar rates of bystander CPR after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, Asian adults in the U.S. have lower rates of survival than white adults, according to new ...

A study published in Circulation last year found that CPR knowledge and confidence to use hands-only CPR can be increased through large-scale community training. Hands-only CPR recommendations 1 from ...

Worldwide interest in CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, skyrocketed following Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2, according to the American ...