Dr. Douglas Zipes answers the question: 'What Is A Defibrillator, How Is It Used — -- Question: What is a defibrillator and how is it used in the emergency room? Answer: A defibrillator is a ...

SOS Alarm, the company that operates Sweden’s 112 emergency number, is to use drones to deliver Automated External Defibrillators (AED) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) for the first time in ...

Defibrillator use in cardiac arrest cases increases patient survival rates by between 49% and 75%, the government wants to ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

During a 911 emergency, everyone is rightly expected to get out of the way of first responders driving to the scene. But these vehicles still need to follow roads, which most likely do not provide a ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - When a member of the audience collapsed Tuesday during a public meeting at the Cape May County Technical High School, the school's security staff rushed to retrieve a portable ...

Korea’s updated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines released on Thursday now tell rescuers not to remove an ...