With over 26,000 cardiac arrests occurring every year in Australia and over 76% of them occurring in the home, some of our youngest Australians are learning how to help. But why kids? It's simple.

UC San Diego medical student Brennan Marsh-Armstrong performs CPR on a test dummy at the UCSD School of Medicine Simulation Training Center on December 21, 2022. If someone you know stopped breathing, ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, is an emergency lifesaving technique that is used when a person's heart has stopped ...

Schools already rehearse fire drills and lockdown drills. Cardiac arrest is far more common, write Meng Yang and Dr. John Maa ...

While sudden cardiac arrest in a child or adolescent is rare—about 20,000 cases occur each year in the U.S.—the survival rate when it happens outside of a hospital is estimated to be under 20%.