Prompt action is of utmost importance during sudden cardiac arrests and knowing how to use a defibrillator can save lives. Dr ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

Somebody's wife or grandmother. Maybe yours. It wasn't like her earlier heart attack. Without warning or complaint, she slipped unconscious to the shopping mall floor. You check for a pulse. Nothing.

School districts in the south and southwest suburbs have different numbers of automated external defibrillators available, but officials have different opinions on whether the state should provide ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Tamisha Derks is the owner of Concierge Healthcare Training. She teaches First Aid and CPR to organizations and businesses in the Tampa Bay area. Derks started the business several years ...

"The scary nature of cardiac arrest is that there really, really is no prior warning and you could be doing your day-to-day ...

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Defibrillators could be delivered by drone to support someone having a cardiac arrest in the community, according to a North East paramedic. The North East Ambulance Service's Owen Finney has led ...