Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) is the main cause of cardiac death, and it affects approximately 1000 Americans every day. When cardiac arrest occurs, the difference between life and death ...

NEW YORK — A lifesaving shock from an implanted heart defibrillator provides relief that a crisis was avoided, but new research suggests it can also be a sign that more trouble is ahead. A study found ...

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 ...

As the use of automated external defibrillation (AED) devices outside of hospital settings increases, the scientific medical community has not agreed on the optimal energy levels for initial and ...

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Nov. 24, studied patient outcomes for three methods of defibrillation: standard defibrillation; double sequential external defibrillation ...

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 ...

Certain Boston Scientific defibrillation leads are subject to potential shock coil calcification that can result in reduced shock efficacy, according to an alert released by the company, the Heart ...

The 1990's heralded a new era of transthoracic defibrillation in which the rules of conventional practice no longer apply. Seeking waveform designs more efficient than the traditional monophasic ...

If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implant­able cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...

The Resynchronization–Defibrillation for Ambulatory Heart Failure Trial (RAFT) showed a greater benefit with respect to mortality at 5 years among patients who received cardiac-resynchronization ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. The company's automated external defibrillator is under ...