All 16 ambulances in Parry Sound District will soon be equipped with defibrillators useable on children between the ages of one and eight. The District picked up $32,000 bill for the new machines.
Now the children will get the same standard of care adults have had, according to Guy Harris, Base Hospital manager.
Previously, if a [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned medical device maker Cardiac Science Corp. that it must correct procedures to ensure the quality of its defibrillators.
According to the warning letter dated July 11, an inspection of the company’s Deerfield, Wisconsin, plant, uncovered several violations of safety procedures.
Any applications for related lifesaving medical devices would not be [...]

State College police will hold a public event to thank the people and organizations that donated money for the purchase of defibrillator. It will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the borough building, 243 S. Allen St.
An Automated external defibrillator is used to assess a person’s heart rhythm. It determines whether electric shock is needed [...]

Every Houston Independent School District campus will soon be equipped with an automated external defibrillator. The device is used to shock a heart and restore its normal beating rhythm.
The school board is expected to accept 300 donated defibrillators from the Texas Arrhythmia Institute next week. The total value is about $650,000. The campuses need to [...]

STRATFORD —I’ll Take Manhattan, a deli, celebrated its grand opening on Friday at 955 Ferry Blvd. The owners were giving away samples from its menu to raise money to buy defibrillators.
The defibrillators are used to restore cardiac function when people suffering from a heart attack. Each device costs $2,500.
When a person has a sudden [...]

The Women’s Club of Westminster recently gave the Carroll County Agriculture Center two Automated External Defibrillators (AED).
The device is used to resuscitate victims who experience a cardiac arrest or other heart problems. It also provides voice commands to the rescuer on the proper use of the machine.
The Women’s Club raised $3,000 from a basket [...]

Medtronic’s 13 percent drop biggest since ‘84
Fear that the market for implantable defibrillators might be shrinking, makes the device stocks continue freefall.
Medtronic Inc.’s shares fell by $6.61 or 13 percent in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The decline was the biggest in 22 years. Many companies such as Natick, Mass.-based Boston Scientific Corp., [...]

Provides sheriff’s department with fund for 3 defibrillators
Exelon Nuclear donated $4,000 to help Grundy County sheriff get three additional defibrillators. Each device was approximately $1,300.
Automatic External Defibrillators send electric charge or shock to restore normal heart rhythm, when the heartbeat is fatally fast due to ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.
Between 1999 and 2004, the sheriff’s [...]

Twenty automatic external defibrillators will be available in MidCentral DHB region, in case sudden cardiac arrest occurs.
Eight thousand people in New Zealand die each year of sudden cardiac arrest. Their chance of survival decreases by 10 per cent for every minute defibrillation is delayed.
The DHB is the first to provide such wide access to the [...]

U.S. Food and Drug Administration sent much less warning letters to drug and medical device companies in 2005 from five years earlier, according to New York Times.
Seizures of mislabeled, defective, or dangerous products fell 44 percent over the span. And enforcement actions over medical devices fell 65 percent.
This was not because companies were in greater [...]