ALPHARETTA, Ga. – When rising prep football star Ryan Boslet suddenly went into cardiac arrest during a workout in his school gym, a portable defibrillator was only the length of a basketball court ...

Last week, I told you about my little cousin, #70, who collapsed recently during a football game. Matt Nader would be dead right now if his school, Austin Westlake, had not had a defibrillator on the ...

It started as a night to party. It was dinner time on St. Patrick’s Day. Sharon Burrell had the company of a friend, a Friday night and weekend ahead of her. How could it not be a good night? Yet, the ...

“I am a case study for the importance of an automated external defibrillator. If it hadn’t been for that little machine, I wouldn’t be alive today. You hope you never need to use one, but if you do, ...

Every year 250,000 or more people with cardiovascular disease die within an hour of symptom onset and before they arrive at a hospital. With appropriate early defibrillation and follow-up treatment ...

Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) deliver shocks to the heart to correct arrythmias. They do so based on electrocardiogram data. Researchers have now shown that an AICD can be ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A University of Pennsylvania contest has stirred up interest in rounding up AED's - or automated external defibrillators - to pinpoint where the portable devices are located in ...

SOMERSET COUNTY -- Somerset County recently installed automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in the county complex and at other county locations. An AED is a portable automatic device used to ...

A press release from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community: Prior Lake–Lives are being saved by law enforcement officers using Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) donated by the Shakopee ...

Automatic external defibrillators are becoming widely used in many walks of life, including supermarkets and airports. Automatic external defibrillators provide an essential part of the chain of life ...

You could call it the thank you of a lifetime, for a lifetime. Today, San Jose police officer Robert Dale went to O'Connor Hospital in San Jose to pay a visit to the man he gave CPR to Monday at ...