“Since 1966 the American Heart Association has been reviewing its guidelines every few years, it seems to be about every five ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed within five minutes of a child's heart stopping nearly doubled their chances of ...

CPR guidelines for children call for cycles of 30 chest compressions at 100 to 120 compressions per minute, followed by two breaths, researchers said. For the new study, researchers reviewed data for ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researchers looked at data for rescue breathing vs. chest compression CPR for kids in cases of sudden cardiac arrest. A person participates in an American Red Cross ...

CHOP pediatrician Alexis Topjian encouraged families to get training in the new guidelines for CPR. Moments can make a difference in saving a child’s life when they stop breathing. New guidelines for ...

Do your children know what to do if they see another child in an emergency situation? “Emergencies can happen to anyone, anywhere — even children,” said Lon Rosen, founder of the Davie-based One Beat ...

NEW ORLEANS — In children with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR conferred a survival benefit, but conventional bystander CPR was associated with better outcomes than compression-only ...

Black children are less likely than their white peers to receive bystander CPR, according to a study by the American Heart Association. The analysis found that white children received bystander CPR in ...