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 ...

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Early defibrillation plays a key role in improving survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests due to ventricular fibrillation (ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrests), and the use of ...

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 ...

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGODOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO — San Diego expanded its thriving corporate partnership program on Tuesday by naming Cardiac Science Corp. of Wisconsin the official supplier of the city’s ...

In the United States, heart disease remains the leading cause of death, and the odds of surviving a heart attack outside a hospital are 1-in-13 – odds that haven't improved in 30 years. But ...

A former emergency medical technician who zapped a co-worker with cardiac defibrillator paddles as a prank and ended up killing her was sentenced in Lebanon to a year in prison. Joshua Phillip Martin, ...

The federal government has cited Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston for not having working defibrillator paddles in the operating room during a January heart transplant. The transplant ...

Cardiac fibrillation describes the deterioration of the heart’s electrical activity, which drives the heart’s periodic pumping. This electrical activity, which is usually organized, becomes ...

Heart experts have evidence that at least 522 lives can be saved annually in the United States and Canada by the widespread placement of automated external defibrillators, the paddle-fitted, ...

With a colleague, he created a miniaturized defibrillator that could be implanted inside patients suffering from potentially fatal arrhythmia. By Richard Sandomir Morton Mower, an entrepreneurial ...

The federal government has cited Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston for not having working defibrillator paddles in the operating room during a January heart transplant. The transplant ...