Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...

Nonprofit Six Minutes to Live is partnering with the Santa Cruz Fire Chiefs Association to enhance CPR training and accessibility to AEDs, aiming to improve survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest.

Cardiac arrest is a sudden and often fatal condition that occurs when the heart abruptly stops beating due to a disruption in its electrical signals. This immediately halts blood flow to the brain and ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - American Medical Response (AMR) Topeka reports the cardiac arrest survival rate is nearly two times higher than the national average. As the nation observes National Emergency ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019, ...

February is American Heart Month, a great time to recognize the importance of heart health at every stage of life.

Defibrillator use in cardiac arrest cases increases patient survival rates by between 49% and 75%, the government wants to ...