When used correctly, pacemakers and defibrillators improve both quality of life and life expectancy. While teams of engineers design these small machines, they rely on doctors knowing who will benefit ...

The university has recently upgraded its automated external defibrillator (AED) machines this year. The previous machines ...

Campaigners in Kilkenny want to install life-saving defibrillator machines in new wooden kiosks, designed to look like old-style Irish phone boxes. They have asked Kilkenny County Council to ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. "Our research shows that every minute of ...

St. Luke's Park in downtown Ottawa now has a public, outdoor automatic external defibrillator (AED). Sudden cardiac arrest, or when someone's heart suddenly stops beating, can happen at any ...

the nearest machine is a round trip of 1.8km away. Three out of 10 cardiac arrests happen at weekends and four in 10 happen during the night, so quick access to a defibrillator at any time of the ...