If you saw someone dying of a heart attack and an electric defibrillator was nearby, would you pick up the paddles and try to shock the victim back to life?According to a troubling new report in the ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

ASPEN – Pitkin County might be a good place to have a heart attack, if such a place exists. The county now has more than 200 automatic external defibrillation units placed where anyone, including ...

Positioning defibrillator pads on the front and back of the body, rather than on the front and side, could be more effective at treating cardiac arrests, new research suggests. When you purchase ...

Most out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are caused by ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. Electrical defibrillation is the only effective therapy for these Prompt ...

It was 2 a.m. I was in the emergency ward when a patient was admitted, a relatively young guy—he’d had a drug overdose. My sense was that he was unemployed, maybe homeless. He was mumbling and groggy.

CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...

LEBANON, Va. (AP) — A judge convicted a former rescue squad worker of involuntary manslaughter for zapping a co-worker with defibrillator paddles in a deadly prank. Joshua Philip Martin, 25, faces a ...

A dim-witted individual has stolen vital parts from a public defibrillator in Wishaw, rendering it useless. The life-saving machinery was within a closed but unlocked cabinet at the Veterans Centre ...

Glasgow, UK - A report that appears in the June 9, 2001 issue of the BMJ concludes that reducing ambulance response times to 5 minutes could almost double the survival rate for cardiac arrests not ...