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 ...

Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...

A defibrillator saved the life of a high school hockey player in Watertown on March 5, but the state doesn't keep track of which schools have them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrew Lockwood (right) helped David Pearson when he collapsed in November [BBC] An elderly man who had a cardiac arrest at a ...

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 ...

Cardiac arrest is a sudden and unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness. It is caused by a problem in the heart that disrupts its normal rhythm. It is different from a heart ...

41-year-old Chris Wall collapsed during a workout class ...