New guidance on choking in conscious children and adults recommends alternating five back blows followed by five abdominal thrusts, until the object is expelled or the person becomes unresponsive.

Trisha Flaherty-Barnes lay in a Des Moines hospital bed for nearly a week in a coma. Last May, she collapsed, suffering cardiac arrest at her home. Her husband knew CPR. "A lot of times it's hard for ...

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The recovery phase following cardiac arrest continues long after hospitalization and is now included as a key link in the Chain of Survival, a widely adopted series of critical actions that work to ...

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 ...

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According to a study released by the Resuscitation Science Symposium, men are more likely to receive bystander CPR in public locations compared to women. The AHA is the leader in resuscitation science ...

For many decades, many health, civic, and emergency groups have promoted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as a way to save life, even without a medical degree. Countless classes, books, and ...

The "2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC)," published today in the journal, Circulation, marks the first full ...