Be Prepared. Act Quickly. Save a Life. An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a portable device used during sudden cardiac arrest, a life-threatening emergency in which the heart stops beating ...
Whites are three times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study has found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...
You're at the mall, a restaurant, or the park. Anywhere. You notice that a small crowd has gathered around someone lying on the ground. The person isn't breathing and doesn't have a pulse. Someone ...
SAN ANTONIO – Diamond Garza said CPR can be as simple as singing the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. “There’s a need for people to know what to do,” Garza, a CPR instructor at Life Enrichment ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR -- rapid, deep ...
She’s only 8 years old, but Abigail Lopez, of Island Park, is already a heartsaver. The third grader at Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School completed the American Heart Association’s Adult CPR AED ...