School districts in the south and southwest suburbs have different numbers of automated external defibrillators available, but officials have different opinions on whether the state should provide ...

A public awareness campaign helping the community understand "how to maintain and use defibrillators effectively" is expected ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. "Our research shows that every minute of ...

MAINTAINING an up-to-date register of where defibrillators are positioned could be crucial to saving lives, a local heart charity has said, amid uncertainty over the number and locations of the ...

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Owners of a popular home defibrillator have been told to stop using the device immediately and dispose of the units, warning ...

Washington, DC-The benefits of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy are overstated and their limitations are downplayed in clinical practice, considering limitations of the technology ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the rate of automated external defibrillator use was low.

A family has installed 50 defibrillators in rural communities, in memory of a father who died from a cardiac arrest. Billy ...