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

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 man who climbed Mount Everest to install a defibrillator there says the device wound up saving a woman’s life just three weeks afterward. David Sullivan, 62, made the journey to the Himalayas to ...

Objective: When attempting defibrillation in an out-of-hospital pediatric patient, the use of a reduced energy is recommended by the resuscitation guidelines due to concerns surrounding potential ...

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Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) are crucial lifesaving devices capable of delivering an electric shock to the heart in case of sudden cardiac arrest. When it comes to selecting the right AED, ...

(WJAR) — Project Adam is a national organization that helps prepare schools for sudden cardiac arrest, enlisting pediatric systems to do the training. In Rhode Island, Hasbro Children's Hospital is ...

Team sports can bring local communities and countries together and give opportunity to put aside our differences as we root for our favored teams. For those of us who are parents of an athlete, we ...

Restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a rare form of heart muscle disease with poor prognosis. Its primary manifestations were caused by systemic or pulmonary circulation congestion. Here, we reported a ...

Introduction: Pediatric sudden cardiac arrest may require the delivery of a defibrillating shock to promote return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Fear of harm is a barrier for the use of automated ...