Emergency medical dispatchers give instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) over the telephone to callers requesting help for a patient with suspected cardiac arrest, before ...

Cardiac arrest occurs due to an issue with electrical signals in the heart that cause it to stop beating. When the heart stops beating, a person typically becomes unresponsive within a few seconds.

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) restores perfusion and oxygenation in a patient who does not have spontaneous circulation. The evidence with regard to the effect of extracorporeal ...