TUCSON, Ariz. – The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than ...

A study published March 17, 2007 in The Lancet, one of the world’s foremost medical journals, finds that the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting are almost twice as high ...

April 17, 2006 — Editor's Note: Cardiocerebral resuscitation (CCR) — employing chest compressions but no ventilations — improves survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, according to the results of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Defibtech’s recall of its automated continuous chest compression device as class I, the most ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched two multi-site clinical trials to evaluate treatments for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. One will compare continuous chest compressions (CCC) ...

Scottsdale’s emergency responders are spreading the word on a life-saving technique. The method is called continuous chest compressions, or CCC, and it’s an alternative to traditional cardiopulmonary ...

A free training class for Continuous Chest Compression CPR will be held tomorrow — Wednesday Aug. 4 — at University Medical Center. The class, sponsored by the University of Arizona's Sarver Heart ...

In today's LA Times, Bill Hillman of South Carolina describes how a technique developed at the University of Arizona saved his wife's life. Hillman says he performed continuous chest compression CPR ...

One tool, the video laryngoscope, helps crews easily navigate a tube to secure an airway and provide oxygen quickly and efficiently The department also purchased a machine for conducting continuous ...

Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...