In the past, flat-chested manikins were typically used, first aid trainers say.
Mercy Fort Smith physicians implanted a newly approved defibrillator with few long-term complications.
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 ...
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 ...
Defibrillator use in cardiac arrest cases increases patient survival rates by between 49% and 75%, the government wants to ...
A Bellevue Police officer used a defibrillator to revive a middle-school teacher after she collapsed Tuesday. On Tuesday, Officer Jay Moriarty was at Highland Middle School when staff reported that a ...