“If you apply a defibrillator to someone’s chest in the first 60 seconds of a cardiac arrest, their chances of surviving increase by 90 per cent,” said Dave Thibodeau of Essex-Windsor Emergency ...

Essex-Windsor EMS has launched a new initiative to get life-saving AEDs into the hands of organizers of events and gatherings ...

The National Safety Council''s First Aid Institute has launched a newly revised Automated External Defibrillation (AED) program designed to save lives in cases of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). SCA is ...

The rates of the primary endpoint of AED attachment before EMS arrival were similar regardless of if the volunteer was randomized to the intervention or control group (13.2% vs 9.5%; P = 0.08), with ...

Bystander CPR and AED application in public locations each were noted in 39% of events, and only 10% of those who experienced OHCA survived to hospital discharge. More than half of events took place ...