When it comes to promoting the use of hands-only CPR, Los Angeles County officials aren't saving their breath. That potentially life-saving step is now at the heart of a campaign to train half a ...

NEW YORK -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR -- rapid, deep ...

NEW YORK -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR -- rapid, deep ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- You can skip the mouth-to-mouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that hands-only CPR -- rapid, deep ...

Three recent studies have found that when untrained bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as part of CPR on people who are in cardiac arrest, it does not improve patient survival rates. In ...

There has been a major change in how you perform CPR. We now skip the mouth-to-mouth portion of this saving technique. Now a dispatcher no longer tell callers who are untrained in cardiac pulmonary ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What is continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? Does it replace the CPR I learned years ago? Continuous cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), known as compression-only CPR or ...

Chest compression -- not mouth-to-mouth resuscitation -- seems to be the key in helping someone recover from cardiac arrest, according to new research that further bolsters advice from heart experts.

CPR is an emergency technique that manually maintains heart function and breathing. Below are steps on how to perform CPR.