There was a hush in the library at Sandia High School on Wednesday. As the early morning sunshine leaked in from the windows, the room was full of teachers, coaches, educational assistants and other ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

Robert Miller smiles and chats as he walks briskly on a treadmill at the Genesis Heart Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation Unit in Davenport. Walking 3.5 mph on a machine is not an easy or enjoyable ...

"Nurse refuses to perform CPR," read the caption on an ABC newscast in California. "911 dispatcher's pleas ignored." Several days earlier, an elderly woman at a senior living facility had gone into ...

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 ...

Shortly after his sixty-seventh birthday, Ernesto Chavez retired from his job at a Los Angeles food warehouse. Sara, his wife of forty-five years, told me that he meticulously took his medications for ...