Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

Carol Wood said if a woman was having a cardiac arrest, she would rather be resuscitated than left [Jamie Niblock/BBC] CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about ...

A Bellevue Police officer used a defibrillator to revive a middle-school teacher after she collapsed Tuesday. On Tuesday, Officer Jay Moriarty was at Highland Middle School when staff reported that a ...

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 ...

A free defibrillator training event is to be held in Wolverhampton as part of the Express & Star's #heartsafe15 campaign for life-saving devices in the city. Sign up for the top news stories every day ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. A third of U.K. adults are are afraid to perform life-saving cardio-pulmonary ...

The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

79-year-old Al Pollock suffered a heart attack during a tennis match in Boynton Beach, Florida. Tennis pro Brett Maynard, who had recently taken a CPR and AED refresher course, saved Pollock's life by ...

A new survey commissioned by Magen David Adom (MDA) ahead of National Defibrillator Awareness Day reveals that while most Israelis recognize the importance of defibrillators, a majority do not feel ...