Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed during Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals, where he laid down on the field for roughly ten minutes while medical professionals administered ...
Worldwide interest in CPR, also known as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, skyrocketed following Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2, according to the American ...
If someone young and healthy collapses, the treatment is a no-brainer. As we age or suffer serious health problems, there may come a point where... Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR.
A doctor “pretending” to do CPR on a patient might seem like an open-and-shut case of malpractice. But some medical professionals believe that faking CPR (a “slow code” in medical parlance) is, in ...
Dr. Mariell Jessup, chief science and medical officer of the American Heart Assn., said she couldn’t say for sure what caused Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s heart to stop during an NFL game ...
I heard from many nurses, doctors, EMTs, and paramedics who were grateful that I had brought attention to the difficult reality that CPR may often cause more harm than good. But I also heard from ...