School Nurse Performs CPR to Help Save Student’s Life Linette Castro, the school nurse at Winfield Scott School No. 2 in New Jersey, had recently started her tenure when a student experienced cardiac arrest. On the morning of Oct. 24, 2023, Linette was in her office when the school's security guard informed her of the emergency. Principal Shante Rorie rushed [...]

First responders help save teenage boy’s life after he collapses at gym. In Grand Prairie, a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a dispatch call was received shortly after 1:30 p.m. on July 7, 2023, after paramedics Boyd Hansbro and Gabriel Morales had just completed transporting a patient to the hospital. Someone had passed out at the gym, according to [...]

Think F.A.S.T. Help save a life. Did you know that stroke is the No. 5 cause of death — and a leading cause of disability — in the United States? Here's the good news: By learning and sharing the F.A.S.T. warning signs of stroke, you can make the difference between a strong recovery and disability, or even death: Face Drooping Does one side [...]

CPR training is being launched in India ahead of World Heart Day, aiming to tackle the country's low CPR rate of just 2% among adults. There are partnerships with the American Heart Association, a leading voluntary health organization, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), a consortium of state-run medical colleges, to educate more than 150,000 students and [...]

CPR in Children Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a very important procedure used when a child has difficulty breathing or has a heart attack. This involves delivering oxygen to the lungs and continuing cardiopulmonary resuscitation until professional medical care is provided or conditions improve. A variety of situations may require CPR for children, including choking, suffocation, excessive bleeding, suffocation, electric shock, [...]