Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation (VF), survival to hospital discharge was more frequent with double sequential external defibrillation (DSED) and vector-change (VC) ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...

People who had a cardiac arrest in a public place and received an automated external defibrillator (AED) shock by a bystander were more likely to make a full neurologic recovery compared with those ...

A SWEEPING act of goodwill has seen three Oxfordshire hotels install life-saving defibrillators on their premises within days of each other. The Malmaison in Oxford Castle Quarter, the Randolph in ...

According to the researchers, these findings highlight the need for improved defibrillator education and awareness in order for them to be used more frequently. Researchers from the Essex ...

Defibrillators that jump-start a stopped heart may save lives in airports and shopping malls, but few people keep them at home in case of collapse — even though that’s where most cardiac arrests occur ...