Every year, an estimated 23,000 kids in the U.S. suffer a cardiac arrest, but a nonprofit is working to change that through ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — A new Illinois law will require all assisted living and shared homes to have an AED on site. The law also calls for all healthcare employees at the facilities to be trained ...

We break down why athletes sometimes suffer cardiac arrest during competition. Structural heart abnormalities and inherited electrical disorders can trigger lethal arrhythmias. Intense physical stress ...

An urgent appeal has been issued for the return of lifesaving equipment that went missing in Coventry City Centre. Coventry Business Improvement District (BID) is urging anyone with information about ...

CHICAGO | Metra is installing hundreds of portable, easy-to-use defibrillators on all of its trains, becoming only the second major transit system in the country to make the lifesaving machines ...

Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is common among patients with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest. Cardiac arrest with VF has a more favorable prognosis than those with other rhythms, but about 25% of ...

ZOLL®, an Asahi Kasei company that manufactures medical devices and related software solutions, announced today that Zenix®, the company’s most clinically advanced and easy-to-use professional monitor ...

Zoll announced today that it received FDA premarket approval (PMA) for its Zenix professional monitor/defibrillator. Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based Zoll, an Asahi Kasei company, said its Zenix system ...

William S. Staewen, a co-inventor of the implantable heart defibrillator and a pioneer in biomedical engineering, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 19 at Frederick Health Hospital. He was 91 and ...

The Town of Dillon installed three automated external defibrillator safety towers in “key high-traffic” public locations, according to a September news release. The towers are accessible 24/7 and ...

Drones could soon be used by the NHS to deliver defibrillators directly to people whose hearts have stopped, potentially reaching patients faster than ambulances and saving more lives. A study by the ...