In the second report, Benjamin S. Abella, M.D., M.Phil., of the University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether well-trained hospital staff perform CPR ...

Many caregivers perform CPR incorrectly and fail to restart stopped hearts by not adhering to strict guidelines governing the frequency and force of chest compressions, a pair of studies said on ...

When family members were allowed to watch emergency personnel try but fail to resuscitate a loved one, the relatives were less likely to have post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety or depression much ...

Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue added more than a million dollars worth of life-saving equipment to its fleet of fire trucks in January, but even with those additions life-saving efforts still fail more than ...

Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis has been cited for neglect after state investigators found three of its nurses failed to take emergency measures last December to save a patient who had ...

A 39-year-old Virginia man died Thursday after he had difficulty breathing while snorkeling with a family member and later became unresponsive, police said. He was identified as Dan Tuma. Police ...

HMP Wandsworth staff failed to properly perform CPR on a prisoner who had gone into cardiac arrest, a watchdog has found. Peter Honnor, 55, died of myocarditis at the south London prison on June 27, ...