In the early 1970s, geography itself shaped the odds of surviving a heart attack in the Central Valley. From Los Angeles to Sacramento, for many patients, the nearest coronary care unit lay miles of o ...
The MV Pulse Project, a nonprofit initiative focused on making automated external defibrillators (AED) more accessible on the Island, announced in an update last week that the group donated five AEDs ...
An inquest into the teenagers death says an opportunity to provide life support was missed.
The Culpepper’s Cardiac Foundation (CCF) placed its 86th automated external defibrillator (AED) on March 3, 2026, continuing its mission to increase heart-safety awareness and access to life-saving ...
A clinical trial seeks to answer if high-tech drones can be the difference between life and death for patients going into cardiac arrest.
Background Optimisation of medical therapy is recommended for patients with newly diagnosed non-ischaemic cardiomyopathies (NICM) before consideration of a primary preventive implantable ...
An informal hockey league that meets regularly at Skate Frederick for friendly games learned — twice — that CPR is not just a training exercise. In September, then again in February, players of the ...
According to a study by the American Heart Association, every year 350,000 people in the United States have an emergency ...
TAMPA, Fla. — Every few months, Clay Emerton makes his way to Dr. Shalin Shah's office. He goes to get his heart defibrillator checked. "This pulls up information from his pacemaker so I can see if he ...
Most of the time, you don't think about your heartbeat. It works quietly in the background of your day. But sometimes your heart's rhythm sends important cues from ...
He's one of 17 success stories since the McKinney Fire Department launched an initiative to improve cardiac arrest survival ...
Physicians from The Heart Institute of East Texas, in collaboration with St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Lufkin, are among the first in the region to successfully implant a groundbreaking extravascular ...