CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Federal health officials have approved sale of the first defibrillator specifically for at-home use, a machine that promises to help people jump-start the heart of a collapsed loved ...

It was 2 a.m. I was in the emergency ward when a patient was admitted, a relatively young guy—he’d had a drug overdose. My sense was that he was unemployed, maybe homeless. He was mumbling and groggy.

A dim-witted individual has stolen vital parts from a public defibrillator in Wishaw, rendering it useless. The life-saving machinery was within a closed but unlocked cabinet at the Veterans Centre ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

LEBANON, Va. (AP) — A judge convicted a former rescue squad worker of involuntary manslaughter for zapping a co-worker with defibrillator paddles in a deadly prank. Joshua Philip Martin, 25, faces a ...