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CPR kits train GRPS students to save lives

More than 800 Grand Rapids Public Schools students will learn hands-only CPR this year with the help of new kits provided by ...
You’ve seen what a cardiac arrest looks like on television - the patient limp and pale, the alert lifesaver pounding their ...
Many TV depictions of CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not only made errors in correct technique but may skew public ...
Checking for a pulse and giving rescue breaths are just some of the ways TV inaccurately depicts CPR for sudden cardiac ...
The Avon Fire Department continues to offer CPR and AED classes to community members and medical professionals, providing hands-on training that fire officials say can significantly improve survival ...
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has newly recommended that automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) be used on female cardiac arrest patients without removing undergarments such ...
Lastly, we found that almost 65% of the people receiving hands-only CPR and 73% of rescuers performing CPR were white and ...
The "2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC)," published today in the Association's flagship journal, Circulation, ...
Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...
Two minutes into cardiac arrest—when the heart stops pumping and blood ceases to flow to the body's organs—brain cells begin ...
TV shows portray CPR incorrectly in most episodes, spreading outdated methods that discourage lifesaving action.