The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

An elderly man who had a cardiac arrest at a Lancashire tennis club has praised his friend for "being willing and able to have a go" with a defibrillator that saved his life. David Pearson, 85, said ...

A 41-year-old dad-to-be who went into cardiac arrest during a gym class feels “lucky and blessed” to have had his life saved ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

A defibrillator saved the life of a high school hockey player in Watertown on March 5, but the state doesn't keep track of which schools have them.