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AUSTIN (KXAN) — After Buffalo Bills Safety Damar Hamlin was still in the ICU Tuesday due to collapsing on the field during Monday Night Football, local experts weighed in on important tools to prevent ...

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.

Expert guidelines advocate defibrillation within 2 minutes after an in-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular arrhythmia. However, empirical data on the prevalence of delayed defibrillation in ...

Isy Sonabend suffered a heart attack and cardiac arrest, initially mistaking symptoms for indigestion. The LifeVest, a wearable defibrillator, detected his episode and delivered life-saving shocks to ...

Prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy did not reduce mortality in patients with a prior myocardial infarction, persistent moderate left ventricular systolic dysfunction and ...

If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implant­able cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...

BLANCHARD, Okla. (KFOR) – The Norman Regional Health Foundation (NRHF) has donated a defibrillator to the Blanchard Little League Association after a coach went into cardiac arrest. Officials say in ...

New research examined a large-scale national registry of cardiac arrest cases to measure the effects of advanced airway management (AAM) on one-month outcomes after patients survived. The deep ...

Oct. 8 -- WEDNESDAY, Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Implanting a defibrillator in the first weeks after a heart attack does not improve survival, a major European study shows. Fewer deaths from sudden ...