When one woman received training about how to do CPR and use a defibrillator, she really didn't know that one day, she'd be ...

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Every year, an estimated 23,000 kids in the U.S. suffer a cardiac arrest, but a nonprofit is working to change that through ...

North Shore University Hospital’s cardiology team became the first to complete a procedure using the novel OmniaSecure ...

The FDA-approved OmniaSecure defibrillation lead from Medtronic is a thin wire that connects an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to the heart.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A new Illinois law will require all assisted living and shared homes to have an AED on site. The law also calls for all healthcare employees at the facilities to be trained ...

We break down why athletes sometimes suffer cardiac arrest during competition. Structural heart abnormalities and inherited electrical disorders can trigger lethal arrhythmias. Intense physical stress ...

Automated external defibrillators (AED) are portable, life-saving devices designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating suddenly and ...

An urgent appeal has been issued for the return of lifesaving equipment that went missing in Coventry City Centre. Coventry Business Improvement District (BID) is urging anyone with information about ...

CHICAGO | Metra is installing hundreds of portable, easy-to-use defibrillators on all of its trains, becoming only the second major transit system in the country to make the lifesaving machines ...

Research from health charity St John Ambulance shows that a quarter of UK adults have experienced a cardiac arrest incident in some way, either as a first aider, bystander or patient. With more than ...