News

• Channel News Asia

  CRS clinical research director Benjamin Abella strengthens collaboration with Singapore in their efforts to treat patients with therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest. April 3, 2013.

• Foxnews.com

  Learn the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack. March 20, 2013

• ABCnews.com

  "Don't Think, Just Do CPR". Dr. Abella discusses the importance of immediate CPR. March 5, 2013

• CBS Philly

  Brotherly Love: Sink Or Swim Philadelphia Helps Patients Pay Medical Bills. February 12, 2013

• Penn Medicine News and Publications

  The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Resuscitation Science is investigating a novel training program called CPR Hospital-Initiated Training Project (CHIP). This program uses nurses and volunteers to train family members of high-risk cardiovascular factors using a CPR anytime Kit from the American Heart Association. See how the project is being done in Pennsylvania Hospital here. January 22, 2013

• Daily Mail UK

  Researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia discuss how giving longer CPR may save more lives. January 21, 2013

• Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation

  SCAF article on the number of patients treated annually for SCA in US Hospitals. June 24, 2011

• Philadelphia Inquirer

  CPR and Smartphone Technology. Philadelphia Inquirer article featuring Dr. Raina Merchant. April 21, 2011

• People Magazine

  Cardiac Arrest and Cooling. April 18, 2011

• U.S Air Foreces Central Command

  332nd EMDG US Air Force performs therapeutic hypothermia on a soldier using CRS website protocols. April 14, 2011

• WPVI 6 ABC Philadelphia

  Woman meets nurse who saved her life. 7 March 2011.

• Advance for Nurses

  CPR Quality Worse at Night: read the ADVANCE for Nurses article looking at the CRS UPenn study findings. February 14, 2011

• JEMS

  CPR Monograph: CPR Performance Counts. December 2010

• WHYY

  CPR in hospitals less effective at night. Hear the WHYY story on research done by members of the CRS. November 15, 2010

• JEMS

  Making Sudden Cardiac Arrest a Reportable Condition: Read the JEMS story about efforts to create a national reporting system for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. October 28, 2010

• Philadelphia Inquirer

  CPR guidelines updated to "hands-only." Dr. Abella discusses the American Heart Association's updated CPR guidelines in the Philadelphia Inquirer. October 19, 2010.

• Philadelphia Inquirer

  Sapatkin, Don. More and more, paramedics pack cardiac-arrest patients in ice. 14 Sept 2010

• MSNBC.com

  Cooling therapy has chilling effect on deaths from cardiac arrest. 31 August 2010

• Reuters Health

  Joelving, Frederik. Gaining on death, cooling therapy catches on slowly. 26 Aug 2010

• CNN.com

  Learn how YOU can save a life: An easy two-minute CPR lession on CNN.com featuring MD/RN from the Center. July 28, 2010.

• Penn Medicine News and Publications

  Ewing, Rachel. Reversing Death: Therapeutic Hypothermia. 1 July 2010.

• CNN.com

  For young mom, new CPR beat back death: Read the story on CNN. October 14, 2009.

• CNN.com

  Cheating Death: Back from the Dead: See the clip from the hour long special featuring MDs from the Center. October 13, 2009.