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 ...
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 potentially life saving piece of kit has been installed at Pioneer Place in Burnley as part of a wider rollout of 10 ...
An elderly man who had a cardiac arrest at a Lancashire tennis club has praised his friend for "being willing and able to have a go" with a defibrillator that saved his life. David Pearson, 85, said ...
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 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 ...