Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] I have a love/hate relationship with how healthcare is ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Emergency response data shows less than four in ten cardiac arrest patients in our area receive CPR before first responders arrive, well below Wisconsin’s statewide average.

Delhi’s police chief said one of his officers used an automated external defibrillator to save the life of a Delhi woman. According to a Wednesday, March 11 news release from Chief Michael Mills, a ...

A new poll revealed a “critical gap” in automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness with most Americans wanting a bystander to use the device to save their life in a cardiac emergency but less ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is an AED? Here's why it can save lives. (Photo: Getty Images) (Photo: Getty Images) About 90% of the 350,000 cardiac arrests ...

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.

(WBFF) — Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced the expansion of Howard County’s Automated External Defibrillator (AED) program. The expansion will allow for more access to AED units throughout ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

A smartphone app that alerts trained citizens to respond to nearby of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) does not seem to increase the application of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), ...

About 90% of the 350,000 cardiac arrests that happen outside a hospital each year are fatal. However, a simple medical device, an automated external defibrillator (AED), can save lives. According to ...