“Push hard, push fast” next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice. Putting the emphasis on chest compressions instead ...

DALLAS — New guidelines out Monday switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The change puts "the simplest step first" for ...

DALLAS – “Push hard, push fast” next time you give CPR to someone having cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice.Putting the emphasis on chest compressions ...

The American Heart Association last week issued new CPR guidelines for healthcare workers as the COVID-19 pandemic heads into its third year. The new guidelines say healthcare workers who are ...

DALLAS — “Push hard, push fast” if you give CPR to someone suffering cardiac arrest, say new, simpler guidelines in a radical departure from past advice. Putting the emphasis on chest compressions ...

The guidelines for advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) underwent a comprehensive 5-year update in 2020, but focused updates for 2021 highlight the chain of survival, both in- and out-of-hospital, ...

Over the last 40 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) has promoted the ABCs (Airway-Breathing-Chest Compressions) of CPR. 2010 guidelines released in October, however, reordered the sequence to ...

Chicago, IL - A editorial in the January 19, 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association says CPR guidelines are ripe for a major overhaul and that the key to saving lives may be ...

San Francisco -- Two of the three pillars of CPR -- opening a distressed person's airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing -- turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life of ...