ALPHARETTA, Ga. – When rising prep football star Ryan Boslet suddenly went into cardiac arrest during a workout in his school gym, a portable defibrillator was only the length of a basketball court ...

Every year 250,000 or more people with cardiovascular disease die within an hour of symptom onset and before they arrive at a hospital. With appropriate early defibrillation and follow-up treatment ...

It started as a night to party. It was dinner time on St. Patrick’s Day. Sharon Burrell had the company of a friend, a Friday night and weekend ahead of her. How could it not be a good night? Yet, the ...

Thousands of patients with congestive heart failure benefit from automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) that deliver shocks to the heart to correct abnormal heart rhythms. These ...

Automatic external defibrillators are becoming widely used in many walks of life, including supermarkets and airports. Automatic external defibrillators provide an essential part of the chain of life ...

“I am a case study for the importance of an automated external defibrillator. If it hadn’t been for that little machine, I wouldn’t be alive today. You hope you never need to use one, but if you do, ...

Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) deliver shocks to the heart to correct arrythmias. They do so based on electrocardiogram data. Researchers have now shown that an AICD can be ...

SOMERSET COUNTY -- Somerset County recently installed automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in the county complex and at other county locations. An AED is a portable automatic device used to ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A University of Pennsylvania contest has stirred up interest in rounding up AED's - or automated external defibrillators - to pinpoint where the portable devices are located in ...

A press release from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community: Prior Lake–Lives are being saved by law enforcement officers using Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) donated by the Shakopee ...

You could call it the thank you of a lifetime, for a lifetime. Today, San Jose police officer Robert Dale went to O'Connor Hospital in San Jose to pay a visit to the man he gave CPR to Monday at ...