What TV Gets Wrong About CPR and Why It Matters

Scripted television often shows CPR performed incorrectly. This can affect how the public responds to emergency situations, ...

Bad depictions of CPR on TV undermine real-life efforts, doctors warn

"Breathe, please just breathe! It's not your time yet, Marjorie! I can't lose you like this, not here, not now!" Such hinge ...

What TV Dramas Get Wrong About CPR—and the Real-World Cost

TV varies dramatically in informing viewers about medical emergencies, but it also teaches audiences how not to perform ...

Think you know CPR from TV? You’re doing it wrong

You may want to double-check your CPR skills. While it’s probably common knowledge not to take medical information from ...

TV depictions of hands-only CPR are often misleading, research suggests

TV depictions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may mislead viewers about who is most likely to need cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and where it's needed, according to new research published in ...

Here's what TV gets wrong about CPR—and it could cost lives

Think you know how to perform CPR properly because you've seen it on TV? You probably don't, a new study has warned.
The Purdue Exponent

Fictional CPR on TV often ‘misleading’ and can cost real lives

TV shows often "inaccurately portray" who is most likely to need CPR and where out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen.
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As Seen on TV: Bystander CPR Way Behind the Times

Hands-only CPR is somehow not the norm in scripted television ...
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CPR on TV is often inaccurate – but watching characters jump to the rescue can still save real lives

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Beth Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh (THE CONVERSATION) Television characters who ...