School districts in the south and southwest suburbs have different numbers of automated external defibrillators available, but officials have different opinions on whether the state should provide ...

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 new study shows that training ordinary people to use defibrillators can nearly double a heart attack victim's chances of survival. The heart-shocking devices already are standard equipment in many ...

The American Red Cross is now offering an automated external defibrillator (AED) for use in the home. According to the Red Cross, sudden cardiac arrest claims the lives of 250,000 people in the ...

Defibrillators are being used in just one in ten cardiac arrests where the lifesaving devices are available, according to new research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A defibrillator was used to save the life of a student who collapsed during track practice in Hillsborough County. According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Deputy ...

KPRC 2 Investigates: Houston ISD admits non-working defibrillators found during recent inspection of schools Anderson stated that several staff members reported that the school’s defibrillator failed ...

HORICON - Staff and aides at Van Brunt Elementary/Middle School and Horicon High School are being trained in the use of automatic external defibrillators. The Horicon School District has three of the ...

First, let me set the stage with a little background. The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a device similar to a pacemaker that can deliver a heavy electrical shock to restore normal ...

Blair Casey, from Banknock, has already helped facilitate community centres in Dennyloanhead and Banknock install community defibrillators outside their premises and has now raised enough cash to pay ...

CHICAGO | Metra is installing hundreds of portable, easy-to-use defibrillators on all of its trains, becoming only the second major transit system in the country to make the lifesaving machines ...