Carol Wood said if a woman was having a cardiac arrest, she would rather be resuscitated than left [Jamie Niblock/BBC] CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about ...

In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer ...

Playing for the Wycombe Wanderers' Foundation Under-19s on 31 January 2024, Adam Ankers, 17, went into sudden cardiac arrest towards the end of a match. He had shouted that his chest was tight moments ...

Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. Study ...

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 ...

Cardiac arrest is a sudden and unexpected loss of heart function, breathing and consciousness. It is caused by a problem in the heart that disrupts its normal rhythm. It is different from a heart ...

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 ...

British Heart Foundation hails East Riding Council’s pioneering initiative ...