A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...

The Health Products Regulatory Authority has urged users of Defibtech defibrillator pads to immediately check their pads as they may have been labelled with incorrect expiry dates. A number of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heartbeat Diagram In Red It's no exaggeration to say that knowing how to use a defibrillator properly can save someone's life. A ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with obesity, a second set of defibrillation pads for dual direct current cardioversion safely improved the success of the procedure, a ...

The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is advising that a number of Defibtech Automated External Defibrillator (AED) pads supplied to Louth and the wider Irish market have been affixed with ...

Approximately 460,000 US deaths occur each year as a result of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA), making sudden cardiac death the leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 95% of ...

A warning has been issued in relation to unauthorised labels on some defibrillator pads supplied to the Irish market which display an incorrect expiry date. The Health Products Regulatory Authority ...

Defibrillators are used when a person is in cardiac arrest to restore a normal heartbeat, but would you know what to do if an alarming incident occurs? According to the British Heart Foundation, there ...

Defibrillators are not just for buildings - Moel Famau hill in north Wales has one Following the death of a rugby player from a cardiac arrest during a match, BBC Wales is taking a closer look at the ...

Implantable defibrillators and pacemakers have been around since the 1970s, but advances in materials science and 3-D visualization are transforming them from cumbersome life-support tools into ...

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