Search Tag: cardiopulmonary resuscitation
2017 10 Oct
A new U.S. study shows that coordinated, multifaceted public health initiatives may be helpful for communities aiming to improve outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), including at home. Implementation of such initiatives targeting multiple personnel across the cardiac arrest “chain of survival” resulted in more patients receiving bystander...Read more
2016 18 Oct
Research released by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) shows that thousands of people die every year because people are not carrying out life saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on cardiac arrest victims before emergency services arrive. The study, published in Resuscitation , analysed more than 11,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA)...Read more