Actor Nana Patekar died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 75 on Thursday after suffering a severe cardiac arrest. The veteran actor was found unconscious at his home in Goa and was rushed to Manipal ...

When someone suffers from cardiac arrest—an electrical malfunction in your heart that abruptly stops it from beating—knowing how to perform CPR can literally save their life. But more often than not, ...

"Anyone can learn CPR - and everyone should!" proclaims the American Heart Association on its website. Because 70 percent of Americans do not know how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), ...

JNS.org – EZ CPR, an Israeli smartphone app that was launched this week, provides instructions on how to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in emergency situations. Eli Beer, president of the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... DALLAS — New guidelines out today switch up the steps for CPR, telling rescuers to start with hard, fast chest presses before giving mouth-to-mouth. The ...

The heart has an internal electrical system that controls the rhythm of the heart. A problem in this system may cause a cardiac arrest. It may cause the heart to stop pumping blood to the brain and ...

More than 350,000 people had sudden cardiac arrest outside of a hospital in 2017. Those who received CPR were two to three times more likely to survive. Joshua Moeckly, a Mayo Clinic cardiac nurse, ...