Carol Wood said if a woman was having a cardiac arrest, she would rather be resuscitated than left [Jamie Niblock/BBC] CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about ...

Access to a defibrillator and the quick wits of a school nurse and security guard are being credited with saving the life of a substitute teacher who had a heart attack at Edison Preparatory School ...

An elderly man who had a cardiac arrest at a Lancashire tennis club has praised his friend for "being willing and able to have a go" with a defibrillator that saved his life. David Pearson, 85, said ...

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 ...

A Bellevue Police officer used a defibrillator to revive a middle-school teacher after she collapsed Tuesday. On Tuesday, Officer Jay Moriarty was at Highland Middle School when staff reported that a ...

A match official whose life was saved with a defibrillator after collapsing twice during a game is continuing to receive treatment in hospital. Martin Weedon, 73, was one of the assistant referees at ...

The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

79-year-old Al Pollock suffered a heart attack during a tennis match in Boynton Beach, Florida. Tennis pro Brett Maynard, who had recently taken a CPR and AED refresher course, saved Pollock's life by ...