Cardiac arrest survivors, who defied the odds after their hearts literally stopped, joined their rescuers from the Anchorage Middletown Fire & EMS Department. "I died," Edie Willhite said, adding "six ...

Surveillance video showed the terrifying moment 6-year-old Oscar recently slipped underwater at a pool and struggled to breathe. Just seconds later, Roque Ivan Ocampo heard screams, tossed off his ...

"His eyes were wide open so I thought he was alive. I'm CPR trained with working in a nursery. I felt a breath coming out of his mouth. "I put him in the recovery position. I could feel he was not ...

“I ran to my sons’ room to shield them,” she said ... Miriam attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and CPR while Armando called the police, according to their statements.

Infections during CPR can be potentially acquired through airborne ... “CPRWrap Resuscitation Kits have a one-way valve mouth shield to protect the user from any fluid contaminations…,” Jackson said.

There has been a major change in how you perform CPR. We now skip the mouth-to-mouth portion of this saving technique. Now a dispatcher no longer tell callers who are untrained in cardiac ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do ...

(Credit: Joseph Jacques de Gardane/Wellcome Collection) Rectal fumigation is, obviously, not CPR (cardiopulmonary ... Today, guards, shields and masks (such as the one shown above) are recommended for ...

As his chances of survival waned, I arranged to speak with his family about a subject inseparable from death itself: cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR ... from his mouth onto my face.” ...