SALISBURY — Less than three weeks after it was donated, the Salisbury Fire Department’s new CPR machine has already saved two lives, with firefighters demonstrating Thursday how they have been able to ...

First responders can spend an hour performing CPR on some patients whose hearts have stopped beating. Their training tells them how to react to a moment like this — repeatedly press into the person’s ...

Of the approximately 1,000 cardiac arrests that occur in the U.S. every day, a large majority of them are fatal because the victims didn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The American Heart ...

Microgravity makes it tricky to do simple tasks like eating, using the toilet and showering, so it is no wonder that performing CPR on someone whose heart stops beating in space is an extremely ...