If you want to eliminate the half-hearted CPR known as the “slow code,” you have to eliminate the conditions that make them necessary, two bioethicists write.

For some ethicists, the real problem isn’t the slow code itself, but the failure to reckon with why it exists. Policies have created a system where doctors perform CPR not because it will help ...

39% of women receive CPR from a stranger in public during a cardiac arrest, compared with 45% of men, according to the American Heart Association.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - When a heart stops beating during sudden cardiac arrest, CPR from a bystander doubles the chance of survival. However, women are 14% less likely to receive bystander CPR and ...

This new CPR dummy attachment with breasts could help save women's lives The Womanikin was created by a female doctor and female-led ad agency.

The staff at Danny’s Cafe got certified in performing CPR less than 24 hours before facing a life or death situation.

A North Carolina woman, Poly Rosalik, is planning to teach CPR classes after her quick thinking and recent training saved her husband's life.