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 ...

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 ...

Beginning in 2026, new spaces with an occupancy of 100 people or more will be required to have an automated external ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.™ ...

DALLAS, Feb. 26, 2018 -- Survival from cardiac arrest doubled when a bystander stepped in to apply an automated external defibrillator (AED) before emergency responders arrived, according to new ...

INDEPENDENCE, Ky. — More than 40 officers work at the Independence Police Department. Since November, the officers have shared life-saving equipment between shifts. With the arrival of a new shipment, ...