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Performing CPR improves a person's chance of survival during cardiac arrest. Hands-only CPR involves only chest compressions at 100-120 beats per minute. Both chest compressions and rescue breathing ...

Revised guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of infants and children recommend new techniques to revive breathing, clear obstructed airways, and improve survival rates. Updated every 5 ...

This can be done by a frame with a piston, a more compact piston device, or a portable strap-on compression band. The goal was to see which of these methods could compress the simulated chest to a ...

A NEW study conducted during parabolic flight has shown that automatic chest compression devices (ACCDs), particularly a standard piston device, provide far more effective cardiopulmonary ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

Transgender and gender nonbinary people may experience gender dysphoria when they compare how they present themselves with their gender identity. Chest binding has become a popular practice to make a ...

People of a certain age know the Bee Gees’ “Stayin' Alive” as the right rhythm track not just for John Travolta’s strut, but also for anyone doing hands-only CPR. But decades later, Gen Z says it’s ...

Three labor and delivery nurses from Texas — Julie Watson, Nicole Curry, and Alyssa Gonzalez — are using Sabrina Carpenter’s hit song “Please Please Please” in a life-saving way. They recently took to ...

Healthcare professionals use Defibtech’s RMU-2000 ARM XR to provide chest compressions on adults whose hearts stop suddenly. The device features a piston that repeatedly presses down on the patient’s ...

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 following is a summary of “How Does Rescuer’s Position Setting Impact Quality of Chest Compression: A Randomized Crossover Simulation Study on Unexperienced Clinicians,” published in the August ...