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AED voice prompts exist for one reason: to keep a stressful, messy scene moving in the right direction. When someone collapses…

One of the most common questions in sports medicine and urgent care, and one that bystanders face constantly at athletic events,…

High school students are not a typical CPR target audience. Most CPR training programs think about nurses, teachers, coaches, parents, people…

Every February, hospitals put up red banners, organizations hold walks, and public health campaigns remind Americans that heart disease kills more…

Bloodborne pathogens spread through exposure to infected blood and certain other potentially infectious materials, but that sentence stays vague until you…

Buying an AED is only part of the preparation. Where you put it determines whether someone can actually reach it in…

The tricky thing about head injuries is that the most dangerous ones do not always announce themselves right away. A person…

CPR technique matters because chest compressions only help when they are deep enough, fast enough, and steady enough to move blood….

Each October, Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month draws attention to one of the most survivable emergencies in medicine and to the…

The survival window depends on which pathogen you are asking about. Hepatitis B virus can survive on dry surfaces for up…