Watching someone collapse from sudden cardiac arrest is a scary experience — but knowing what to do can save a life. Quick ...

This Saturday, June 3, is the Compress and Shock Foundations’ annual free CPR and AED Educational Day. The organization is specifically focusing on communities that are underserved and don’t have ...

Closeup hands practicing chest compressions on a CPR training dummy. Correction: The headline on a previous version of this article incorrectly referenced heart attack survival. It should have said ...

Using an AED kit within the first few minutes of cardiac arrest can double or triple a person's chances of survival.

A new poll revealed a “critical gap” in automated external defibrillator (AED) awareness with most Americans wanting a bystander to use the device to save their life in a cardiac emergency but less ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In advance of National Heart Health Month, and on the heels of the milestone passing of the HEARTS Act, ZOLL® Medical’s Anything Can Happen. Anyone Can Help.™ ...

LYNNWOOD — In September 2013, Matthew Truax collapsed at the Meadowdale High School track. He went into cardiac arrest and died immediately, five days before his 17th birthday. On the 10th anniversary ...

When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what to do. He and another bystander put her flat on her back and checked her pulse (faint) and her ...

COTTAGE GROVE, Minn. – A generous gift has been made from the family of a young man who died from a heart attack. Teddy Dowdle was just 22 when he collapsed during a game of pickup basketball last ...

Kansas City Chiefs backup defensive lineman BJ Thompson is “awake and alert,” his agent told NBC News on Friday, after the athlete suffered a seizure and cardiac arrest on Thursday. The 25-year-old ...

Minister of Health Kemal Memişoğlu attended the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Dissemination Program. Speaking there, ...