Escambia County has quadrupled its resuscitation rate for cardiac arrests, raising the survival rate from less than one in 10 to closer to four in 10.

TOBYHANNA, Pa. — As the lead athletic trainer, Evelyn Payne is used to standing on the sidelines at Pocono Mountain West High School in Tobyhanna Township. But today, she wasn't watching a practice or ...

It takes a lot of training and the latest technology to keep alive a heart attack patient, local EMS official Mike Fitzgibbons says. "The first minutes (after a heart attack) are absolutely critical," ...

In Harrison and Hancock counties, our local out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate is higher than the national average. This is an important and encouraging metric in general, but significantly ...

Cheri Hart walks into a room joking, vivacious and full of life, but there were a few minutes in October when that wasn’t the ...

A new study shows that a single standard guideline could help emergency medical crews and ER teams determine which cardiac arrest victims might benefit from a trip to the hospital, while at the same ...

East Texas Medical Center EMS is the first in Texas to launch the PulsePoint CPR/AED smartphone application to help improve sudden cardiac arrest survival rates in communities served by ETMC EMS in ...

Sep. 5—WEATHERFORD — David Cruise doesn't remember much about the events on the morning of June 9. "I think what happened was a miracle, very humbling," he told some 50 Parker County EMS employees and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Differences in emergency medical service agency resuscitation practices may partly account for widely varying ...