GUILFORD -- The Guilford Free Library staff just learned how to use a cutting edge, life-saving piece of equipment donated by a local business. "Who wants to get shocked this morning?" Louis Iannotti, ...

(Reuters Health) - Cardiac arrest patients may be more likely to survive and avoid permanent disabilities when bystanders use a defibrillator to treat them before an ambulance arrives, a new study ...

Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. Photo by Mikhail Nilov/Pexels Oct. 28 (UPI) --Every minute ...

Here's more support to show that when a bystander uses a portable defibrillator on someone suffering cardiac arrest in a public place, chances of survival increase markedly. Another big plus: the ...

Q: Electric shock is used to start hearts that have stopped beating. In a pinch, would it be possible to start a heart using a stun gun? A: Doctors use defibrillators to shock a heart out of a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A public-access defibrillator and five clear-headed strangers trained in CPR saved the life of a 70-year-old tourist who collapsed near the San Miguel County ...

James Gee, like other Houston Airport Security personnel, sat through emergency training last year with hopes that he wouldn't have to use the skill. That all changed June 6 when Gee and two ...

A miniature device that senses abnormal electrical activity in the heart and jolts it back into normal rhythms has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year among heart attack victims ...

Maryland businesses that opt to have a defibrillator on site have no legal obligation to use it in case of emergency, the state’s second-highest court has held. In its 3-0 decision Tuesday, the Court ...

Three Oak Park police officers rushed to save the life of a man who was not breathing, and experiencing a medical crisis, on June 10. Sgt. Dan Silva and Officers Dawn Carver and Michael Dulski ...

An urgent appeal has been issued for the return of lifesaving equipment that went missing in Coventry City Centre. Coventry Business Improvement District (BID) is urging anyone with information about ...