Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CPR, especially when done immediately, can double or triple a person’s survival chances. (Getty Images) According to the AHA, ...

SAN ANTONIO – If someone went into cardiac arrest in front of you, would you know how to save them? That’s a question a local girl and the American Heart Association want the San Antonio community to ...

The American Heart Association has announced new CPR and Basic Life Support guidelines for 2026, reflecting advances in resuscitation science and team-based response. The revisions highlight precise ...

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 ...

Black or Hispanic adults who experience a witnessed cardiac arrest outside the hospital are substantially less likely than their white peers to receive lifesaving care from a bystander, preliminary ...

White adults are three times more likely to survive cardiac arrest after receiving bystander CPR than Black adults are, a new study found. Likewise, men are twice as likely to survive after bystander ...

NEW YORK — 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 presses ...

The Kansas City, Missouri Health Department is offering free CPR and safety trainings in hopes of getting 100 or more ...

Children need CPR much sooner than adults to save their lives during cardiac arrest The window for best chance of survival CPR in children is within five minutes That’s half the 10-minute window for ...

Black and Hispanic adults who go into cardiac arrest in public are less likely to receive CPR from anyone standing by before a medical team arrives, a new study finds. Overall, the relative likelihood ...