The following instructions are for children ages 1 to 12. To find out what to do when a baby younger than 12 months is choking or needs CPR, see our visual guide to infant CPR.. What to do if your ...

The children were divided into three groups: 2,019 who received bystander CPR with dispatcher instruction; 703 who received bystander CPR without dispatcher instruction; and 2,287 who didn't ...

How to perform CPR on children. To do CPR for a child, kneel beside them as they lie on their back. With your hands out straight and fingers interlocked, ...

Matos et al, "Duration of CPR and Illness Category Impact Survival and Neurologic Outcomes for In-Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Arrests," Circulation, published Jan. 21, 2013. Goldberger et al ...

According to the newest CPR guidelines, two hands are used for adults; one hand for children, and just a finger or two for infants. The numbers are same: 30 compressions between breaths.

Bystander CPR was performed on 46.5% of the cohort and was more common in white children (56.3%) than in black children (39.4%) or Hispanic children (43.3%; P < .001), Maryam Y. Naim, MD, from the ...

Bystander CPR was performed on 1814 children (46.5%) and was more common for white children (56.3%) than for African American children (39.4%) and Hispanic children (43.3%).

“Emergencies can happen to anyone, anywhere — even children,” said Lon Rosen, founder of the Davie-based One Beat CPR. “Emergencies like sudden cardiac arrest or drowning may require CPR.

A viral video of two young boys saving their father's life with CPR has illustrated the importance of the lifesaving act. Recently, the importance of young children learning CPR was in the ...

Moreover, African-American children in well-educated, affluent, and highly employed communities received the same level of bystander CPR as did white children in neighborhoods facing high unemployment ...

Children who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital are more likely to survive and have good brain function if dispatchers instruct bystanders on CPR, according to a large Japanese study ...