On Saturday, Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest. The swift intervention of Simon Kjaer and the medical staff saved his life. "[Eriksen] was gone," Denmark's team doctor Morten Boesen said.

"Nurse refuses to perform CPR," read the caption on an ABC newscast in California. "911 dispatcher's pleas ignored." Several days earlier, an elderly woman at a senior living facility had gone into ...

A doctor “pretending” to do CPR on a patient might seem like an open-and-shut case of malpractice. But some medical professionals believe that faking CPR (a “slow code” in medical parlance) is, in ...