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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...