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 ...

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 ...

Knowing what to do during sudden cardiac arrest can be the difference between life and death, something Karl Arps knows well.

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 ...

About one-third of EMS agencies in a nationally representative registry switched their advanced airway placement approach from 2016-2018 to 2020-2022. Survival and return of spontaneous circulation ...

PEACH COUNTY, Ga. — Peach County EMS has implemented major changes in how it handles cardiac arrest calls, resulting in improved survival rates, officials say. The agency reports that nearly 10% of ...

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 ...

A Chesterfield man who survived sudden cardiac arrest is launching an initiative to teach families lifesaving skills.

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," ...

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 ...