Medical creep happens when doctors practice “outside the box.” They perform procedures or prescribe treatments in the absence of clear evidence that patients will benefit. For example, doctors often ...

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR is an emergency life-support procedure. It includes artificial respiration and manual cardiac massage. Both these procedures are applied to prevent irreversible ...

The Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal offered workshops to staff and the public on the techniques of cardiac massage, CPR and the use of AEDs on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. We apologize, ...

It has been reported by Thaler and Krause elsewhere in this issue of the Journal that serious trauma to children can result from closed-chest cardiac resuscitation attempts, just as previously found ...