Drones may prove to be a more expedient means of delivering many items, but a number of research projects have demonstrated that dropping defibrillators off to heart attack victims could have ...

Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Defibrillators use electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rate, especially in cases of life threatening arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest, while pacemakers use low-energy electrical pulses to ...

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 ...

Researchers used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart's electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios. They ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

Defibrillation testing of implantable cardioverter–defibrillators (ICDs) does not improve outcomes compared with device implantation without testing and, therefore, “defibrillation testing during ...

John Deery’s story is nothing short of miraculous and highlights the life-saving importance of defibrillators. An experienced long-distance runner, John was fit and healthy when he took on the Belfast ...

Defibrillation is a procedure used to treat life threatening conditions that affect the rhythm of the heart such as cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular fibrillation and pulseless ventricular tachycardia.

Expert guidelines advocate defibrillation within 2 minutes after an in-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular arrhythmia. However, empirical data on the prevalence of delayed defibrillation in ...

Public-access defibrillation is known to improve survival rate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but evidence on a population level is currently lacking. In a Japanese registry study involving 43,762 ...