New trial results that could double the patients who are eligible to use heart defibrillators had shares in the health-care companies that make the devices racing on Wednesday. Guidant Corp. said a ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Chief Executive Raymond Cohen has delivered a shock to Irvine-based defibrillator maker Cardiac Science Inc. since his arrival five years ago. Cohen joined Cardiac Science in 1997, when the company ...
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 ...