Television depictions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and CPR tend to ignore the current standard of hands-only CPR for bystanders, a study found. The American Heart Association (AHA) supports hands-only CPR as the layman standard. A meta-analysis of 14 observational studies involving 253,247 OHCA cases showed that the group without bystander CPR had a significantly lower survival rate than the group with CPR (OR: 1.72, 95% CI: 1.40–2.12, p < 0.05). Bystander CPR significantly increases return of spontaneous breathing and circulation before hospital arrival and survival to discharge. In the US, the overall rate of bystander CPR was 40.7% across all states. Women are 14% less likely to receive bystander CPR and defibrillation than men. Only 10% of patients with OHCA outside the hospital survive. Bystander CPR doubles the chance of survival.