A child is hospitalized in critical but stable condition after nearly drowning in a pool on Sunday evening, Plantation authorities said. Just before 6:45 p.m., officials received a call about a child ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performed within five minutes of a child's heart stopping nearly doubled their chances of survival, according to preliminary research to be presented at the ...

A Texas mother is behind bars after her two kids were found unconscious in a hot car on a sweltering late summer day and were later pronounced dead, police say. Tiona Lasaisha Islar, 28, stands ...

GLOUCESTER , MASS. (WHDH) - A nurse from Gloucester was one of several good Samaritans who jumped in to help three children swept away by the current of the Annisquam River. “I think it’s just ...

HOLBROOK, Massachusetts (WCVB) -- An emergency dispatcher in Massachusetts is being celebrated for helping save the life of a 4-year-old girl. A 911 call came into the Holbrook Regional Emergency ...

Three Philadelphia police officers rushed an unresponsive 10-month-old child to the hospital in a cruiser while performing CPR in the backseat. Three Philadelphia police officers rushed an ...

CPR for children consists of cycles of 30 chest compressions, at 100-120 compressions per minute, followed by two breaths. For adults, bystander CPR administered within 10 minutes after cardiac arrest ...

Initiating CPR within the first five minutes after cardiac arrest can nearly double the chances of survival for children, according to preliminary research analyzing data for more than 10,000 children ...