In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer pumping blood to vital organs. Sadly, fewer than one in eight are likely to ...

Defibrillators can save lives, but only if they are working. Early CPR and defibrillation can more than double survival rates in a cardiac arrest5 Damaged shock pads, flat batteries or missing parts ...

Over the past year, Multnomah County has used one key metric to defend the quality of its ambulance system: the survival rate of people who are revived by paramedics after their heart stops pumping, a ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019, ...

In the UK, around 60,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest every year, and less than 1 in 10 people survive.