Watching someone collapse from sudden cardiac arrest is a scary experience — but knowing what to do can save a life. Quick ...

This Saturday, June 3, is the Compress and Shock Foundations’ annual free CPR and AED Educational Day. The organization is specifically focusing on communities that are underserved and don’t have ...

Closeup hands practicing chest compressions on a CPR training dummy. Correction: The headline on a previous version of this article incorrectly referenced heart attack survival. It should have said ...

LYNNWOOD — In September 2013, Matthew Truax collapsed at the Meadowdale High School track. He went into cardiac arrest and died immediately, five days before his 17th birthday. On the 10th anniversary ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In advance of National Heart Health Month, and on the heels of the milestone passing of the HEARTS Act, ZOLL® Medical’s Anything Can Happen. Anyone Can Help.™ ...

A new poll revealed a “critical gap” in automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness with most Americans wanting a bystander to use the device to save their life in a cardiac emergency but less ...

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her ...

DALLAS, Feb. 26, 2018 -- Survival from cardiac arrest doubled when a bystander stepped in to apply an automated external defibrillator (AED) before emergency responders arrived, according to new ...

AEDs, or public defibrillators, are designed to be used by anyone. Try to stay calm and follow the directions that the device gives you. Share on Pinterest Aria sandi Hasim/Getty Images A ...

Objective To describe neurological outcomes after sudden cardiac arrests (SCAs) in road and long-distance races using a rapid mobile automated external defibrillator system (RMAEDS) intervention.