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Saving a Life with the Bee Gees
An amazing cardiac arrest survivor story in the Houston Chronicle featuring Dr. Bentley Bobrow and life-saving TX-CARES: Cardiac arrest is not uncommon, according to Dr. Ben Bobrow, professor and chair of emergency medicine at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth and...
Save a Life, Texas
Every day 60 people suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Texas. Research done at UTHealth shows us that there are large and unacceptable disparities in bystander CPR and survival from cardiac arrest, particularly among our minority and disadvantaged...
High-Performance CPR: HP-CPR “What & Why” Webinar
Join this ever-timely event on the foundational role HP-CPR has as the most important EMS therapy in successful resuscitation for treating out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Topics include: What comprises HP-CPR? How is HP-CPR performed best? Why is HP-CPR so important?...
Research shows disparities in how communities respond to cardiac arrest
Black neighborhoods had a significantly lower rate of bystander automated external defibrillator (AED) use relative to non-Hispanic/Latino white communities, according to researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)....
AHA Young Investigator Award
Dr. Ryan Huebinger, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the McGovern Medical School of University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, recently received a Young Investigator Award from the American Heart Association for the scientific abstract titled:...
CPR and Coronavirus
Don't hesitate with CPR because of COVID-19. A new study in Circulation last month, reviewed the rates of COVID-19 infections in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and the implications for bystander CPR. In an article published in the Washington Post, experts urged the...
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