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 ...

A Long Island hospital is the first in the nation to implant a novel defibrillator outside a patient’s heart and veins. Cardiologists at the Sandra Atlas Bass Heart Hospital at North Shore University ...

Here's more support to show that when a bystander uses a portable defibrillator on someone suffering cardiac arrest in a public place, chances of survival increase markedly. Another big plus: the ...

Medical device maker Zoll Medical Corporation has received FDA premarket approval for a wearable external defibrillator for use in the hospital. Zoll got approval last year for its LifeVest, a similar ...

Hospitals around the country have been spending millions of dollars to buy automated defibrillators to save the lives of more patients who go into sudden cardiac arrest. The purchases were spurred by ...

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 ...

St. Peter's Hospital this week donated laptop-sized portable devices called automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, to Capital High School and the Helena Youth Soccer Association. The devices are ...

The family of a 45-year-old father who died after a cardiac arrest hope to install 100 defibrillators in his memory. Billy ...

Marion - A hospital has agreed to buy defibrillators for Grant County school districts following the death of a high school basketball player who collapsed during practice. After Josh McCormick died ...