The ventilation technique, also known as rescue breathing, commonly used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for people with cardiac arrest is often performed poorly by professional emergency ...

Dallas, TX - A new study has identified a tendency by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to hyperventilate patients during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ...

A Czech study found that mouth-to-mouth ventilation through a breathable respirator was effective more than 90% of the time during the pandemic. New findings set to be presented at the Euroanaesthesia ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As the risk for COVID-19 exposure during CPR for out-of-hospital or in-hospital cardiac arrest is a serious ...

People can survive cardiac arrest if they receive only chest compressions during attempts to revive them -- as advised by the current American Heart Association guidelines. But they cannot survive ...

The heart has an internal electrical system that controls the rhythm of the heart. A problem in this system may cause a cardiac arrest. It may cause the heart to stop pumping blood to the brain and ...

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