Initiating CPR within the first five minutes after cardiac arrest can nearly double the chances of survival for children, according to preliminary research analyzing data for more than 10,000 children ...

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 12, 2016 -- While compressions-only or Hands-Only CPR is as good as conventional CPR for adults, children benefit more from the conventional approach that includes rescue breaths.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A group of Tampa children learned the life-saving skill of CPR on Tuesday through an event with the American Heart Association. Everyone who attended heard from a pair of local ...

Intensive care nursery clinical nurse Elise M. Beer, BSN, RN, demonstrates CPR on an infant manikin from the Infant CPR Anytime kit. Dartmouth Health Children’s recently received a donation of 500 ...

MADISON (WKOW) - Community members got a chance to learn how to save children and infants in an emergency on Wednesday. The EMS Team at SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital-Madison held a demonstration on ...

CPR for children consists of cycles of 30 chest compressions, at 100-120 compressions per minute, followed by two breaths. For adults, bystander CPR administered within 10 minutes after cardiac arrest ...

(NBC)– A new study done by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia says, that African-American children are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander during cardiac arrest. Most of the children ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Expectant parents at Kentucky Children's Hospital will soon have access to a lifesaving resource: special infant CPR kits. It's all because of a gift from the Tempur Sealy ...

<P> Julia Phillips says she didn't think about her newly acquired CPR training when she dived into a swimming pool last week to rescue a drowning 6-year-old girl and got her breathing again.<P> "I ...

SUNBURY, Pa. — With temperatures reaching 90 degrees in parts of our area, it was a good day to go swimming. But with more people in the pool, reports of drownings tend to increase. That's why experts ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Ten-year-old Brady Kellerman was a healthy kid, with no major medical history, until the fourth of July of last year. "I was playing with my friends at my cousin's house, and I ...