You have a better chance than ever of surviving cardiac arrest in King County, thanks to a new resuscitation procedure now practiced by all medics here. The survival rate has increased to 46 percent ...

Emphasizing the need for caution as well as the importance of making the procedure more widely available, the American Heart Association has suggested that training in cardiac resuscitation for ...

The study compared four neonatal resuscitation devices: Ambu neonate bag and mask, Topster bag and mask, Laerdal pediatric pocket mask and Tekno tube and mask. Functionality was tested by 40 village ...

Fluid resuscitation with colloid and crystalloid solutions is a ubiquitous intervention in acute medicine. The selection and use of resuscitation fluids is based on physiological principles, but ...

Most seriously ill elderly people who view video material about the pros and cons of available resuscitation and assistive procedures decide they would rather not receive such treatment when the time ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children as young as 9 years of age can learn emergency resuscitation procedures, and retain this knowledge when it is taught regularly, suggest findings from an Austrian ...

Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency that occurs when the heart abruptly stops, but it is not the same as a heart attack. We've all seen television dramas where frantic medics pump somebody's chest ...

Dr. Nick Kluesner is an emergency physicians with UnityPoint Health-Des Moines. Dr. Matt Trump works in pulmonary and critical care medicine with UnityPoint Health-Des Moines and The Iowa Clinic. Dr.