Renal & Urology News

Could Drone-Delivered Defibrillators Save Lives?

Emergency response agencies are using drones to transport automated external defibrillators during active 911 emergencies.
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Drones enabled the use of defibrillators before ambulance arrival

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have evaluated the possibility of alerting drones equipped with automated external defibrillators (AED) to patients with suspected cardiac arrest. In more than ...
Healthline

A Quick Guide to Using a Defibrillator

AEDs, or public defibrillators, are designed to be used by anyone. Try to stay calm and follow the directions that the device gives you. Share on Pinterest Aria sandi Hasim/Getty Images A ...
Yahoo

Life-saving AEDs are rarely used in cases of cardiac arrest, a new study finds. Why that's a problem — and what you can do.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, can save the life of someone in cardiac arrest, but they're rarely used, new research ...
Business Wire

Survey Reveals Critical Gap: 90% of Americans Want You—the Bystander—to Use an AED to Help Save Their Life in a Cardiac Emergency, But Less Than Half Believe They Have Same ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In advance of National Heart Health Month, and on the heels of the milestone passing of the HEARTS Act, ZOLL® Medical’s Anything Can Happen. Anyone Can Help.™ ...
WXIX-TV

Northern Kentucky police officer saves man’s life using an AED

ALEXANDRIA, Ky. (WXIX) - An Alexandria police officer is being credited with keeping a family together after she saved a man’s life using an AED. It has been almost one year since Project Heart ...
Healio

Rates of AED use low, even when located near an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the rate of automated external defibrillator use was low.