The rates in which nursing home staff perform CPR or use an automated external defibrillator on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest residents “were not ideal,” according to a new study. Researchers say ...

Nurses will be familiar with the procedure for advanced life support, but may be less confident with basic life support skills that are required to manage out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article, ...

The National President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Tope Osundara, has lamented the acute shortage of people with basic knowledge of life support that could help to undertake ...

The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). During these past 50 years, tremendous research has been conducted to evaluate techniques, ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare — about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S. — the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to ...

Raipur: In cases of cardiac arrest, a patient's survival depends significantly on timely cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Studies show that when CPR is administered promptly, survival chances ...

The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has begun training of over 20,000 people, including health workers and other persons, on Basic Life Support, BLS, to reduce mortality. Chief Medical ...

The workshop—organised under GIMS’s newly launched Vidya Setu unit for skill, education, and training—is being conducted in collaboration with the Indian Resuscitation Council Federation The ...