By the year 2009, the state of Illinois requires public places like schools, park districts, and universities to have automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
 
So there’s a program to help them get a grant. A place of business applies for the grant and sends about $500 to the Heartsaver AED fund. The state will pay the […]

The Mid Central DHB is placing 20 automatic external defibrillators in places like picture theatres, swimming pool complexes and other areas where traffic is likely to occur.
 
Defibrillator sends electric shock to revive heartbeat. It is designed to recognize irregular heartbeats, so it can not be misused or used to shock someone with a normal heartbeat.
 
The […]

Police cruisers for 16 law enforcement agencies in Summit County are now equipped with Automated External Defibrillators.
According to Cardiologist Terry Gordon, 330,000 people in America go into cardiac arrest each year. Only 3 to 5 percent of them survive. But a heart patients odds increase significantly with the help of defibrillators. That’s why it is […]

ZOLL Medical Corporation has signed an agreement to become Champ Car’s Official Supplier of the Medical team. It’ll be in charge for the remainder of the 2006 season and for 2007.
The Champ Car World Series Medical Team, and its fast-response Safety Team, is known throughout motor sports for its world-class safety and medical care at […]

Heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids may prevent more sudden deaths than some defibrillators, according to a computer-modeling study. 

The computer model used realistic data on patient health and treatment, including how well patients comply with their doctors’ orders, the researchers said. 

Researchers compared the prevention strategies for a computer-simulated community of 100,000 people. Raising omega-3 levels lowered […]

The Mikey Network donated a new paramedic golf cart and two mountain bikes to Toronto Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on August 29. 

The new Mikey golf cart was equipped with a stretcher and defibrillator. Two paramedic mountain bikes were being used by Toronto EMS staff at large special events and gatherings, where getting paramedics to patients […]

The Toms River Regional Board of Education raised about $40,000 from the 2005 festival to buy 21 automated external defibrillators (AED). The life-saving devices were being equipped all schools in the district. 

AED is used to shock the heart back into normal rhythm. In 2005, AED succeeded in saving two students’ lives after they collapsed at […]

Medtronic Inc.  CEO Art Collins assured shareholders that the medical device firm is not for sale, despite rumors that Johnson & Johnson is planning a bid.

Collins also explained why Medtronic’s stock-price slump in recent weeks, from $60 in January to the mid $40.  For one, the company suffered the recall of thousands of implantable cardioverter […]