WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of a national campaign encouraging Americans to Be Red Cross Ready, the American Red Cross has developed the First Aid and CPR for Everyone kit -- ...

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

Video of a Texas man using CPR to revive a baby stuck in tornado debris is bringing more attention to that life saving practice. A man named Tom Mitchell used CPR on the baby after a tornado tore ...

Visitors at the Cincinnati Museum Center will soon get a chance practice their CPR skills thanks to a new "Hands-Only" CPR training kiosk from the American Heart Association. The kiosk will have a ...

Although guidelines are in place for the proper execution of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), it is not known how well the procedure is carried out in practice. Moreover, the CPR skills of trained ...

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

A pilot study of the first proposed major change in decades to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) suggests that performing the maneuver while patients are on their stomachs offers far better ...