CPR on TV is often inaccurate — but watching characters jump to the rescue can still save real lives

Lastly, we found that almost 65% of the people receiving hands-only CPR and 73% of rescuers performing CPR were white and ...
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TV Shows Often Fumble When Portraying CPR

Checking for a pulse and giving rescue breaths are just some of the ways TV inaccurately depicts CPR for sudden cardiac ...
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TV CPR often not reflective of real-world scenarios

Many TV depictions of CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest not only made errors in correct technique but may skew public ...
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TV depictions of Hands-Only CPR are often misleading

While an analysis of scripted TV programs mischaracterizes who is likely to need CPR and where, TV characters were more ...

Hands-only CPR: how TV gets it wrong

Analysis of more than 160 TV episodes shows inaccurate portrayals of who is most likely to need CPR and where out-of-hospital ...