Updated CPR guidelines tackle choking response, opioid-related emergencies and a revised chain of survival

The "2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care ...
AHA/ASA Journals

Executive Summary: 2025 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation Consensus on Science With Treatment Recommendations

The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was formed in 1992 with the goal of creating global consensus on evidence-based emergency cardiovascular care, cardiopulmonary ...
WebMD

CPR for Children

If you’re alone with a child or baby who is unresponsive and not breathing (or only gasping), call 911 after you’ve done 2 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). If someone else is present, ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

CPR with Chest Compression Alone or with Rescue Breathing

The role of rescue breathing in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed by a layperson is uncertain. We hypothesized that the dispatcher instructions to bystanders to provide chest compression ...
New York Post

The dark side of CPR: Why doctors say that it could do more harm than good

The world’s most famous life-saving rescue technique could be worse than death in many cases, according to a new report. Administering CPR — or cardiopulmonary resuscitation — to a cardiac arrest ...
New York Post

Bystanders less likely to give women CPR than men in public, increasing chances of cardiac fatalities: study

Bystanders are less likely to give women CPR in public, a new study suggests. In research to be presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, a team of Canadian ...