If you saw someone dying of a heart attack and an electric defibrillator was nearby, would you pick up the paddles and try to shock the victim back to life?According to a troubling new report in the ...

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 ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

It was 2 a.m. I was in the emergency ward when a patient was admitted, a relatively young guy—he’d had a drug overdose. My sense was that he was unemployed, maybe homeless. He was mumbling and groggy.

LEBANON, Va. (AP) — A judge convicted a former rescue squad worker of involuntary manslaughter for zapping a co-worker with defibrillator paddles in a deadly prank. Joshua Philip Martin, 25, faces a ...

ASPEN – Pitkin County might be a good place to have a heart attack, if such a place exists. The county now has more than 200 automatic external defibrillation units placed where anyone, including ...

The federal government has cited Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston for not having working defibrillator paddles in the operating room during a January heart transplant. The transplant ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal health officials have approved sale of the first defibrillator specifically for at-home use, a machine that promises to help people jump-start the heart of a collapsed loved ...

In the United States, heart disease remains the leading cause of death, and the odds of surviving a heart attack outside a hospital are 1-in-13 – odds that haven't improved in 30 years. But ...