A study concluding that home defibrillators didn’t do much to improve the survival rate of cardiac-arrest victims could dampen hopes for the Seattle-area manufacturers trying to create a new market ...

FDA has cleared the first of a new generation of AEDs intended for home use.(click to enlarge) It has been more than two years since legislation was passed to require increased public access to ...

Home automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) modestly improve survival in shockable cardiac arrests but are not currently cost-effective. Equipping all private homes with AEDs would cost over $4 ...

Ever since the defibrillator for home use was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in October 2002, there has been ongoing debate over the appropriateness of owning the ...

According to a large US cohort study, the use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in private homes was associated with a 26% increase in survival in patients with cardiac arrest with shockable ...

The devices that can jump-start a stopped heart have been saving lives in airports and shopping malls for years. Now the government is considering letting people buy the specialized equipment for ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Having a defibrillator at home does not protect heart attack survivors against a cardiac arrest any better than having someone at home with good cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

WASHINGTON – People worried about sudden cardiac arrest no longer need a doctor’s prescription to buy devices that jump-start the heart. The Food and Drug Administration for the first time agreed ...

An emergency-room doctor attaches paddles to a patient's chest and delivers an electric jolt to the heart. That's a defibrillator in action, a desperate attempt to jump-start a heart whose rhythms ...

About 100,000 Americans per year are told they need a sophisticated electronic device implanted in their chest. The device, an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), delivers a shock when it ...

Having an automatic external defibrillator (AED) in a private home does appear to increase the likelihood of survival in people who experience certain types of cardiac arrest, but having them in all ...