South Central Ambulance Service urges people to check any publicly accessible defibrillators.

Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. Study ...

Playing for the Wycombe Wanderers' Foundation Under-19s on 31 January 2024, Adam Ankers, 17, went into sudden cardiac arrest towards the end of a match. He had shouted that his chest was tight moments ...

Using a defibrillator for a cardiac arrest victim improves 30-day survival even with ambulance response times as short as two minutes, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2023. The ...

The new defibrillator, made by Boston Scientific, doesn't require the leads. Instead, it sits just under the skin on the left side of a patient's rib cage near the armpit, and the lead is threaded ...

In New Zealand, ambulance crews treat about seven people a day who are in cardiac arrest, meaning their heart is no longer pumping blood to vital organs. Sadly, fewer than one in eight are likely to ...

In the UK, around 60,000 people have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest every year, and less than 1 in 10 people survive.