Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. Study ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Playing for the Wycombe Wanderers' Foundation Under-19s on 31 January 2024, Adam Ankers, 17, went into sudden cardiac arrest towards the end of a match. He had shouted that his chest was tight moments ...

The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

A Bellevue Police officer used a defibrillator to revive a middle-school teacher after she collapsed Tuesday. On Tuesday, Officer Jay Moriarty was at Highland Middle School when staff reported that a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. A third of U.K. adults are are afraid to perform life-saving cardio-pulmonary ...

CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about giving women life-saving treatment. In the past, flat-chested mannequins were typically used in training, but Beccles ...

A new survey commissioned by Magen David Adom (MDA) ahead of National Defibrillator Awareness Day reveals that while most Israelis recognize the importance of defibrillators, a majority do not feel ...