When implanting a subcutaneous ICD, routine defibrillation testing could be safely skipped when using a scoring system 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 ...

Public videos of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests showed brief warning signs before collapse, frequent seizure-like movements or gasping afterwards, and a gap between quick recognition and starting ...

After a Waterbury high school student collapsed during a hockey practice in Watertown last week, a defibrillator delivered "life-saving shocks," police said. The incident underscores the importance of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An automated external defibrillator (AED) hangs on a wall outside the gymnasium at Fairfield Warde High School, in Fairfield, Conn ...