THE combined use of external cardiac massage and external electric defibrillation, as developed by Kouwenhoven et al. 1 and Zoll and his associates, 2 has added new dimensions to the resuscitation of ...

A new observational study suggests the position in which responders initially place the two defibrillator pads on the body may make a significant difference in returning spontaneous blood circulation ...

If you haven’t had to perform CPR for a patient who was being shocked by an automated implant­able cardioverter defibrillator (AICD), give it time. Approximately 800,000 people in the United States ...

March 18, 2003 — Performing CPR before defibrillation for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation has no advantage if the delay to shock is less than five minutes, according to the results of a ...

Serum creatine kinase (CPK) activity was abnormally elevated on eight of 37 occasions in patients treated with direct-current electroshock. Serum total LDH rose on five and GOT on three occasions. The ...

Some patients are having their defibrillation leads taken out early due to shock coil calcification, according to an FDA alert. Boston Scientific has informed healthcare providers that device leads ...