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 ...

AEDs, or public defibrillators, are designed to be used by anyone. Try to stay calm and follow the directions that the device gives you. Share on Pinterest Aria sandi Hasim/Getty Images A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...