The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). During these past 50 years, tremendous research has been conducted to evaluate techniques, ...

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 ...

OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...

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 ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) has newly recommended that automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) be used on female cardiac arrest patients without removing undergarments such ...

Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, can save the life of someone in cardiac arrest, but they're rarely used, new research ...