Because athletes young and old can suffer cardiac arrest, some states have mandated the placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in gyms, stadiums and other sports venues. But a new study ...
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 ...
Objective To describe neurological outcomes after sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs) in road and long-distance races using a rapid mobile automated external defibrillator system (RMAEDS) intervention.
The LifeVest by Zoll is a defibrillator that a person can wear. A cardiac life vest can send electrical pulses to the heart to attempt to restart it after cardiac arrest. LifeVest is a device that can ...
Ambulance emergency call operators can direct people to use publicly accessible defibrillators The use of publicly accessible defibrillators has more than doubled during the recent heatwave, South ...
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In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer pumping blood to vital organs. Sadly, fewer than one in eight are likely to ...
In the UK, around 60,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest every year, and less than 1 in 10 people survive.