INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Quick access to a defibrillator could be the difference between life and death; this is something that Ripon Danis experienced himself during a journey home. Walking out of Highbury & Islington London ...

15:28, Thu, Jul 4, 2024 Updated: 15:29, Thu, Jul 4, 2024 People suffering a cardiac arrest face a potentially deadly nine-minute wait for a defibrillator in the worst-served parts of the UK, analysis ...

Guidant Corp. recalled about 29,000 implantable heart devices Friday because of flaws that might cause them to short-circuit when the units are supposed to deliver a potentially life-saving shock. The ...

NEW DELHI: Medical devices company Opto Circuits India's US arm Cardiac Science has launched a new automated external defibrillator (AED) in America and Canada. "The Powerheart G5 is the first ...

Life-saving defibrillators are not being used in nine out of ten cardiac arrests despite being located less than half a kilometre away. Analysis of data from the East of England revealed there were ...

After studying the issue for nearly two years, St. Jude Medical alerted patients and doctors Tuesday that almost 350,000 of its implanted defibrillators have batteries that could fail with little ...

THE family of a 13-year-old Coleraine girl who survived a cardiac arrest have urged defibrillator owners to register their devices on a UK database to help save lives. Lucy King suffered a cardiac ...