If the person is not breathing or only gasping and has no pulse, begin chest compressions. This is the fifth step in CPR.

A new tool, already in use on McMinnville Fire District ambulances, will help Willamette Valley Medical Center continue CPR while also addressing other needs of cardiac arrest patients. Called a ...

Introduction: Women receive bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) less frequently than men in public. Our prior work in North Carolina demonstrated that telecommunicator CPR may lessen this ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Babies are using their hands to communicate before they can actually talk. That appears to be a trend at many daycare centers where tiny infants are being taught sign language so ...

PUTNEY — It may be a few years away, but a new device with a long history of development could replace the AEDs that are ubiquitously attached to walls around the United States. Norman Paradis, of ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — Hancock County is buying lifesaving CPR devices for every one of their area fire departments. The county has purchased 13 LUCAS CPR devices that can give consistent chest ...

If you use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), you may breathe better at night. But you may also have dry mouth in the morning. Dry mouth is a ...

The FDA gave premarket approval to the first medical device for the treatment of women with symptomatic moderate-to-severe intrauterine adhesions, known as Asherman syndrome, maker Womed announced on ...

Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, including the "handstand" method, are ineffective in microgravity due to the lack of a counter-force to compression, resulting in insufficient ...