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Defibrillator 101: How to help others experiencing cardiac arrest NFL safety Damar Hamlin's on-field cardiac arrest raised new awareness on the need for defibrillators. Dr. Jen Ashton demonstrates how ...

Your heart’s job is to keep your pulse steady to pump blood throughout your body. Sometimes your heart rate is slower when you’re relaxing, and sometimes it’s faster when you’re exercising or stressed ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

Cardiac resynchronization therapy has been shown to benefit patients with heart failure despite optimal medical therapy, but the effect on long-term outcomes is unknown. New research findings are ...

Bystander aid using CPR and a defibrillator can be critically important for saving lives when someone has a cardiac arrest -- even when an ambulance arrives quickly, say researchers. A new study finds ...

Oct. 28 (UPI) --Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. "Our research shows that every minute of ...