The odds of survival among patients who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary quite a bit depending on which EMS agency treats them, according to a new study published in JAMA Cardiology. In ...

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 ...

When cardiac arrest patients cannot successfully be resuscitated by emergency medical services in the field, lifesaving attempts to race them to a nearby hospital via ambulance often prove to be ...

In the next three years, about 400 people on the brink of death will be part of a study for which they did not volunteer. In Clackamas, Washington counties and Clark County, Wash., paramedics ...

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A recent study published in the journal Prehospital Emergency Care assesses current approaches to measure the performance of emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the United States and ...

Three million people in Sweden are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Whether this training increases the frequency of bystander CPR or the survival rate among persons who have ...