CPR lessons on female mannequins are being used to dispel myths and taboos about giving women life-saving treatment. In the past, flat-chested mannequins were typically used in training, but Beccles ...
Firth, who founded Public Access Defibrillators UK 13 years ago and has seen his devices help save 33 lives, said he believed ...
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 ...
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 ...