Every year 250,000 people die from cardiac arrest. If you live in Wake County, your chances of surviving are better than most. It is not a matter of new techniques or technology. In fact, common ...

The HEART Pocket defibrillator, which is the size of a mobile phone, offers a breakthrough for thousands of responders and emergency personnel who react to life-threatening emergencies before an ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Farmers’ Market on Broadway will receive a portable Automated External Defibrillator (AED) on-site thanks to a grant from AARP. AARP announced the market has been selected to ...

Emily Cranny, 14, has a congenital heart defect, one that sometimes means her heart stops working properly. A defibrillator implanted more than a year ago already has saved her life once. Now, the ...

The Department of Public Safety purchased two automated external defibrillators to dispatch in their police cruisers two months ago as part of an ongoing initiative to prepare officers for a broad ...

The HEART Pocket provides step-by-step voice guidance with CPR prompts, including a metronome and hand placement instructions ...

CONCORD, N.H. -- It's called House Bill 911 for a reason. It can save lives. The proposal would put the state on record as encouraging schools to obtain portable defibrillators -- which can be the ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland - Prof J Frank Pantridge, the Irish cardiologist who developed the first portable defibrillator, died on December 26 at the age of 88. Pantridge was widely regarded as the ...

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Just one month into the school year, one teen in Dallas died in gym class, four Houston area students collapsed and died during school activities, and an Austin High School student had a close call ...