If you saw someone dying of a heart attack and an electric defibrillator was nearby, would you pick up the paddles and try to shock the victim back to life?According to a troubling new report in the ...

A patient at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, died on Thanksgiving after he caught fire when medical staff attempted to revive him with defibrillator paddles. Kathy Stark, who had been married to ...

Positioning defibrillator pads on the front and back of the body, rather than on the front and side, could be more effective at treating cardiac arrests, new research suggests. When you purchase ...

CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man died after his body caught on fire while he was being treated by hospital personnel.FS Productions/Getty Images A Tennessee ...