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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 41-year-old dad-to-be who went into cardiac arrest during a gym class feels “lucky and blessed” to have had his life saved ...

"Did you by any chance save somebody's life in Bedford Street the other day?" An unexpected text message for anyone to get, but for Dale Lee the answer was yes. The man asking the question was ...

A defibrillator saved the life of a high school hockey player in Watertown on March 5, but the state doesn't keep track of which schools have them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whitehaven business Downton Travel installed a Morley's defibrillator last month [Supplied] The family of a 45-year-old father who ...

Two East Yorkshire villages now have a trained lifesaver on every street. St John Ambulance said it believed Bempton and nearby Buckton, near Bridlington, are the first villages in the country to ...