People who suffer cardiac arrest - in which the heart stops beating - were less likely to die in subsequent years when bystanders performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation using chest compressions only, ...

The elimination of rescue breathing from the CPR protocol for untrained bystanders was based on several compelling physiologic and pragmatic considerations. Mouth-to-mouth ventilation delays the ...

Overturning a century of conventional medical wisdom, Japanese researchers reported Thursday that simple chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth ventilation saves twice as many heart attack victims ...

That builds on previous research that found no short-term survival differences in adult victims given compression-only CPR instead of the standard kind, which includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

The elimination of rescue breathing from the CPR protocol for untrained bystanders was based on several compelling physiologic and pragmatic considerations. Mouth-to-mouth ventilation delays the ...