Author: Katie Bryant

There’s no denying the seriousness of Cardiac Arrest.  The sudden and life threatening heart condition claims close to 500,000 American lives each year.  While there are several conditions that are believed to cause cardiac arrest, the most common are Ventricular Fibrillation or Atrial Fibrillation.   Ventricular Fibrillation is a condition where the ventricles, or lower

Effective CPR can double or even triple a cardiac arrest victim’s chance of survival.  As 4 out of 5 cardiac arrests occur at home, you are more likely to perform CPR on a loved one than a stranger. However, the following CPR mistakes can hinder even the best efforts to help a cardiac arrest victim. 

Modern rescue breathing (or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) was first developed by Peter Safar and James Elam in 1956, and the invention of CPR later followed in 1960.  Since that time, rescue breathing, the act of manually inflating the lungs via mouth-to-mouth, breathing pumps or breathing machines, has been a key component of the CPR method.  However,