Medtronic this week launched its OmniaSecure defibrillation lead in the U.S., describing it as the world's smallest.

Designed for use with Cardiac Science's own AEDs, the pediatric electrodes provide reduced defibrillation energy for children and infants up to 8 years old or up to 55 pounds. The pediatric electrodes ...

Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...

A Fayetteville fire department has a new tool that can help save the lives of more children. The Lafayette Village Fire Department is the first in the Carolinas to carry pediatric defibrillator pads.

Researchers used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart's electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios. They ...

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

A new research report published by Fior Markets with the title Global Automated External Defibrillators Market by Technology (Semi-Automatic, Fully-Automatic), Size (Standard Automated External ...

Early defibrillation plays a key role in improving survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests due to ventricular fibrillation (ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrests), and the use of ...

Defibrillators and pacemakers help the heart maintain a regular rhythm. Defibrillators deliver a shock if the heart goes into arrhythmia. Pacemakers use electrical impulses to keep the heart from ...