Few medical therapies pose the issue of how to avoid sudden cardiac death as starkly as does the implantable cardioverter defibrillator — a device that is implanted like a pacemaker, which has been ...

Patients with substantial left ventricular scarring are prone to sudden death, presumably from ventricular tachyarrhythmias (sustained ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation). Rates of ...

A Windsor man is on a mission to get people more comfortable with using defibrillators. Andrew Brown suffered a massive heart attack earlier this month after playing pickup hockey at Belle River Arena ...

Only a fraction of people who could benefit from an implantable cardiac defibrillator are receiving the life-saving device, new research reveals. The study, published in today's edition of the ...

Campaigners have accused St John Ambulance of 'erasing' women after issuing official CPR guidance referring to 'people with breasts'. Gender critical activists say the charity's online advice on how ...