Every year 250,000 or more people with cardiovascular disease die within an hour of symptom onset and before they arrive at a hospital. With appropriate early defibrillation and follow-up treatment ...

Thousands of patients with congestive heart failure benefit from automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) that deliver shocks to the heart to correct abnormal heart rhythms. These ...

BALTIMORE – Dr. Morton Mower, a former Maryland-based cardiologist who helped invent an automatic implantable defibrillator that has helped countless heart patients live longer and healthier, has died ...

Automatic implantable cardiac defibrillators (AICDs) deliver shocks to the heart to correct arrythmias. They do so based on electrocardiogram data. Researchers have now shown that an AICD can be ...

“I am a case study for the importance of an automated external defibrillator. If it hadn’t been for that little machine, I wouldn’t be alive today. You hope you never need to use one, but if you do, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An FDA-approved wearable cardioverter defibrillator is available for patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest.

SOMERSET COUNTY -- Somerset County recently installed automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in the county complex and at other county locations. An AED is a portable automatic device used to ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A University of Pennsylvania contest has stirred up interest in rounding up AED's - or automated external defibrillators - to pinpoint where the portable devices are located in ...