Dec. 2 -- About 600,000 people in the United States will suffer a heart attack this year and most of them will not survive the life-threatening experience. "The long and short of it is, there are ...

India is the unfortunate capital of coronary diseases globally and reports about 80 deaths due to cardiac arrest per hour on an average. Two main reasons behind this staggering number are the dearth ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...

From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...

Alan Zacharias chose Mt. Bierstadt as his first Colorado 14er, after hitting several other famous hikes like the Manitou Incline. "Drove up there, had a successful ascent up the mountain, and came ...

A cost effective device that some Indian engineering students have developed can prove to be a savior for heart patients. Undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), ...

PRAIRIETOWN — Thanks to a pair of firemen from the Prairietown Fire Department and an auto CPR compression machine from an Alton Memorial Hospital ambulance, Randy Luttrell was able to survive a ...

Emergency workers need to apply hands-on CPR when first on the scene of a cardiac arrest. After slipping the patient into a CPR machine, however, they can quickly switch to automated pushes to the ...