NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — When someone's heart stops, you only have minutes before permanent damage or death will occur. Each year more than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside the hospital in the ...

A CPR training session in Canada took a dramatic turn when 72-year-old instructor Karl Arps suffered a real cardiac arrest while demonstrating heart attack symptoms. His six students immediately ...

Chest pain is often brushed off as stress, acidity or exhaustion, but ignoring it can be fatal. What begins as mild discomfort can quickly spiral into a life-threatening emergency if the heart’s ...

Cardiac arrest is defined as a sudden stop in heart function. Essentially, the pumping function of the heart is compromised, oftentimes due to a dangerous malfunction of the heart's electrical system.

The incidence of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes varies according to age, race and ethnic group, sex, sport, and social determinants of health. The common causes of sudden cardiac arrest include ...

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her breathing ...

Share on Pinterest A new study has found 56 lifestyle factors that could help prevent most cases of sudden cardiac arrest, according to the authors. Image credit: Thomas Barwick/Getty Images. Sudden ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model has performed dramatically better than doctors using the latest clinical guidelines to predict the risk for sudden cardiac arrest in people with hypertrophic ...

UC Berkeley researchers trained AI to detect hidden warning signs of sudden cardiac death in routine ECG tests, according to ...