Automatic External Defibrillation News Today

En route to a nurse training program in Uganda, students and faculty from the University of San Diego responded to medical emergencies on two flights, putting their skills to the test in mid-air.

Although most people who perform CPR feel satisfaction about having done their duty, the experience can be emotionally challenging and have consequences for ones family and work life.

Lay responders performed CPR and applied AEDs at rates similar to trained volunteer responders dispatched via a smartphone app to handle out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, in a study from Sweden.

A physician runner must help when another runner collapses -- and thats just the beginning of a very long race.

Data from one study showed that 1 in 2 physician airplane passengers assisted in medical emergencies.

Climate change, the territorial expansion of the mosquito vector, and the increase in global travel have facilitated the transmission of dengue fever in France.

ESC guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death have undergone an important overhaul since the 2015 edition.

New research shows that states that mandated instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use have greater rates of bystander CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Dramatic improvement in survival rates after sports-related sudden cardiac arrests are mainly a result of increased public use of CPR and automated external defibrillators, researchers say.

A PLOS journal has issued an expression of concern for a 2018 paper which claimed that ivermectin could be useful as a way to control dengue fever.