High school students in Ottawa could learn how to use a defibrillator to revive people who have a heart attack. When someone has a cardiac arrest, CPR must be performed quickly. The personmay also ...

A $1.4 million provincial investment announced this week will go toward a new initiative that can potentially save thousands of lives. Minister of Education Kathleen Wynne (Don Valley West) said the ...

Hundreds of students will be trained in how to use a defibrillator in the Tri-Cities area each year. And today, Port Moody Secondary was one of the nine secondary schools in the area to launch its ...

More lives can be saved if rescuers reduce the time between chest compressions and delivering a shock to people suffering cardiac arrest, suggests a new study of Canadian and U.S. patients.

On the afternoon of May 25, James Charles had just returned from a lunch break when his attention was caught by calls of someone in distress. "Some person came outside running and telling me, 'do you ...

From the Healthy Dal blog: We have all walked by the Red Cross or “AED” sign in airports and other places indicating where a heart defibrillator is located. Do you know what is in them and how to use ...

Every school with a competitive athletics program should put a series of measures in place to ensure that athletes who suffer cardiac arrest have a fighting chance to live, according to newly ...

For the second time in a matter of weeks, a quick-acting city of London worker has helped save a man’s life. Harrison Warmington knew that Argyle Arena had a public access defibrillator, and even ...

Patients with substantial left ventricular scarring are prone to sudden death, presumably from ventricular tachyarrhythmias (sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation). Rates of ...

Few medical therapies pose the issue of how to avoid sudden cardiac death as starkly as does the implantable cardioverter defibrillator — a device that is implanted like a pacemaker, which has been ...

Only a fraction of people who could benefit from an implantable cardiac defibrillator are receiving the life-saving device, new research reveals. The study, published in today's edition of the ...