For patients with cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm, AEDs in private homes improve outcomes but cannot be considered cost-effective at current pricing.

Japan-based study involving Osaka University finds valuable correlation between use of advanced airway management and ECG rhythms indicating need/non-need for defibrillation during out-of-hospital ...

In cardiac arrest, the speed and type of treatment can literally mean life or death in the immediate term, but can also affect health outcomes after successful resuscitation. During out-of-hospital ...

Sooner was not better when using ECG to determine candidates for urgent coronary angiography after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), according to the PEACE study from Europe. The earlier the ECG ...

OBJECTIVETo determine the use of epinephrine (adrenaline) before defibrillation for treatment of in-hospital cardiac arrest due to a ventricular arrhythmia and examine its association with patient ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avive Solutions, Inc (“Avive” or the “Company”), a developer of a next-generation Automated External Defibrillator (“AED”) and innovative cardiac arrest response ...

Ventricular fibrillation, the life-threatening disordered heart rhythms that may accompany full cardiac arrest, occurs more frequently in children than commonly believed, according to a large national ...

Having an automatic external defibrillator (AED) in a private home does appear to increase the likelihood of survival 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 ...