After studying the issue for nearly two years, St. Jude Medical alerted patients and doctors Tuesday that almost 350,000 of its implanted defibrillators have batteries that could fail with little ...

Henderson Group is urging its 240 local SPAR, EUROSPAR and ViVO retail partners with defibrillators installed outside their shops to register with a new national network aimed at boosting response ...

Quick access to a defibrillator could be the difference between life and death; this is something that Ripon Danis experienced himself during a journey home. Walking out of Highbury & Islington London ...

Jayne Biggs, the founder of Heart 2 Heart Norfolk, says defibrillators are "useless" if not kept up-to-date Lives are being put at risk by poorly maintained publicly accessible defibrillators, ...

Guidant Corp. recalled about 29,000 implantable heart devices Friday because of flaws that might cause them to short-circuit when the units are supposed to deliver a potentially life-saving shock. The ...

15:28, Thu, Jul 4, 2024 Updated: 15:29, Thu, Jul 4, 2024 People suffering a cardiac arrest face a potentially deadly nine-minute wait for a defibrillator in the worst-served parts of the UK, analysis ...

Life-saving defibrillators are not being used in nine out of ten cardiac arrests despite being located less than half a kilometre away. Analysis of data from the East of England revealed there were ...

According to the researchers, these findings highlight the need for improved defibrillator education and awareness in order for them to be used more frequently. Researchers from the Essex ...

Tens of thousands of defibrillators across the UK risk being unusable because 999 call handlers do not know about them. When someone has a , external, ambulance staff can only direct bystanders to the ...

Victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) can be saved with a small, prompt lightning bolt (i.e., a defibrillator shock) to the chest. The shock (3 to 5 kV and 50 A) stops the heart from unproductive ...