Approximately 460,000 US deaths occur each year as a result of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA), making sudden cardiac death the leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 95% of ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(11):690-692. The recommendation for public use of AEDs in the 2000 international guidelines for resuscitation [2] was not readily accepted in Japan. One of the ...

Public Access Defibrillation Underutilized in Cardiac Arrest In out-of-hospital (OOH) cardiac arrest, public access defibrillation (PAD) prior to ambulance arrival may be only rarely used. (HealthDay ...

Defibtech, a manufacturer of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), applauded the introduction of H.R.5897, Public Access to Defibrillation in Transportation Facilities Act of 2025, a bipartisan ...

Public-access defibrillation is known to improve survival rate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but evidence on a population level is currently lacking. In a Japanese registry study involving 43,762 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An increase in the number of public-accessible automated external defibrillators was associated with an increase ...

City of Sunnyvale and Philips Honor Survivors, Families and Rescuers from One of the First Public Access Defibrillation Programs The mission of Firehouse is to educate and inspire firefighters so that ...

Welcome to the SUNY Cortland Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) Program website. We hope to answer many of the questions you might have concerning this important campus-wide program. For additional ...

I REFER to the article, “Equipping public with lifesaving skills” published in The Star on June 24 (online at bit.ly/4g7HyTP). The initiative to train 800 members of the public in cardiopulmonary ...

To the Editor: In their study of the effect of public-access defibrillation on outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan, Kitamura et al. (Oct. 27 issue) 1 found an improved survival rate ...

The recommendation for public use of AEDs in the 2000 international guidelines for resuscitation 2 was not readily accepted in Japan. One of the barriers to the use of AEDs by lay people was article ...