Defibrillator News

Golf Calendar (The Hendersonville Times-News)

AED News Source — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:44:56 +0000

v May 5 Lake Lure Lion’s Club will hold its 21st annual open golf tournament, hosted by Apple Valley Golf Club at the Rumbling Bald Resort in Lake Lure.

Advocates seek to add defibrillators at schools (Carroll County Online)

AED News Source — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:28:57 +0000

While automated external defibrillators are at all of the county’s public high schools as required by state law, it is not required that they be in elementary and middle schools.

What could have caused young man’s sudden death? (The Standard-Times)

AED News Source — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:20:59 +0000

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: This is the hardest letter I have ever written. My 23-year-old grandson died. He was on a treadmill at the gym. He just fell off and died instantly. The autopsy didn’t find any cause of death. He was very health-conscious. He didn’t…

South Lee Mailbag: Don’t get really sick if you live in United States (The News-Press)

AED News Source — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:14:06 +0000

Eureka! A credible person has come forward to dispel the myth that our health care system is really market and profit driven and not truly a patient…

Boston Scientific completes enrollment in heart failure trial (Pharmaceutical Business Review)

AED News Source — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:37:41 +0000

Boston Scientific has completed enrollment in the multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial with cardiac resynchronization therapy, known as MADIT-CRT.

Portable Defibrillators Becoming More Common in School Gyms (WSFA 12 Montgomery)

AED News Source — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:36:09 +0000

Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at your child’s athletic event. AEDs or automated external defibrillators, help restart the heart in the event of an accident. It happened just

Devices Used to Save Young Athletes (WXIA-TV Atlanta)

AED News Source — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:22:38 +0000

Portable defibrillators are becoming common equipment at your child’s athletic event. Chris Clackum Reports

A potential life saver (The Record)

AED News Source — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:24:43 +0000

WEST PATERSON â€” Influenced by a baseball accident that nearly took a child’s life, the West Paterson Boys and Girls Club will place defibrillators at four sites around the borough to ensure heart safety for youngsters and seniors.

Shift to hands-only CPR urged (The Capital)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:16:16 +0000

So did 75-year-old Floyd Sheckells Jr. And he had no way of knowing his guardian angel who was standing in line when he started to feel the first pains of a heart attack.

Council Members Call For Defibrillators in Schools (WTOP Radio Network)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:51:27 +0000

The move follows the death of a 10-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest at LaSalle Elementary School last week.