Most out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are caused by ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia. Electrical defibrillation is the only effective therapy for these Prompt ...

Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...

Nov. 12, 2003 (Orlando) — Training nonmedical volunteers to use automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) as well as to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) approximately doubles the survival ...

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 ...

Joshua Lupton, M.D., has no memory of his own cardiac arrest in 2016. He only knows that first responders resuscitated his heart with a shock from a defibrillator, ultimately leading to his complete ...

It's the difference between life and death.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 24, studied patient outcomes for three methods of defibrillation: standard defibrillation; double sequential external defibrillation ...

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The Prineville Hospital Foundation recently purchased a new life pack defibrillator for Pioneer Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Department, which replaced an obsolete model of this life-saving equipment ...

A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...