A report from the Resuscitation Council UK found one-in-four people survived a cardiac arrest in hospital, while the British ...
Recently, I wrote about the dark side of CPR. Despite a common misperception that CPR can rescue almost anyone from the brink of death, most people that receive it don't survive. Of those that do, ...
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 ...
Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. The ...
A family has installed 50 defibrillators in rural communities, in memory of a father who died from a cardiac arrest. Billy ...
A life-saving device has been installed on a village’s new housing development and is available for the whole community to ...