South Central Ambulance Service urges people to check any publicly accessible defibrillators.

Defibrillators are being used in just one in 10 cardiac arrests where the lifesaving devices are available, according to new research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in ...

In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer pumping blood to vital organs. Sadly, fewer than one in eight are likely to ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than ...

Defibrillators are being used in just one in ten cardiac arrests where the lifesaving devices are available, according to new research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles cardiologist Michael Silka, MD, helped to pioneer the development of indications for the use of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators in young patients. From 1998 ...

Orlando, Fla. – Use of portable defibrillators by non-emergency responders on victims of cardiac arrest doubled during a four-year period in Seattle and King County, Washington. Survival rates were ...

There have been numerous news reports over the last week regarding defibrillators. A paper, published in last week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), suggests that one-fifth of all ...

Since emergency ambulances often fail to reach cardiac arrest victims in time for successful resuscitation, consideration has been given to 'on-site' defibrillation by lay people. In England, a ...

ST. LOUIS (CN) - A man died because Southwest Airlines and the City of St. Louis failed to train employees how to use the defibrillators in Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, his survivors claim ...