American Heart Association 2025 CPR Guidelines: What Changed and Why It Matters

By Peter J Klotunowitch  – Updated 2026 Cardiac arrest is still one of the leading causes of death in the United States. It can happen suddenly, often when an electrical problem in the heart causes it to stop pumping blood the way it should. When that happens, every minute counts. The person does not need […]

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AHA Key point 2015 – Hands Only CPR

  By Peter J Klotunowitch The American Heart Association (AHA) gave a “Call to Action” for bystander witnessed an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of probable cardiac origin. The national news media picked this up and announced to the public that the new AHA recommendation is to do compression only Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation. From the number of […]

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Laura: This is my story

Over 300,000 people have their hearts stop suddenly (suffer Sudden Cardiac Arrest or SCA) yearly in the United States alone. Most survivors return to their home and back to their usual activities. Of these survivors, many were previously healthy. Since the AHA Guidelines 2000 we have been taught that for every minute that passes between […]

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