An emergency-room doctor attaches paddles to a patient's chest and delivers an electric jolt to the heart. That's a defibrillator in action, a desperate attempt to jump-start a heart whose rhythms ...

where Beck placed its two metal paddles on the boy's heart and delivered 1,500 volts of electricity. The boy lived. Beck had just performed the first successful defibrillation. And during the 1950s, ...

Kestra Medical recently filed a form S-1 to confirm its intent to go public through an initial public offering (IPO).

A defibrillator is used to give a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest Lives are being put at risk by people who steal and vandalise defibrillators ...

In a previous column, we discussed pacemakers. In this one, we’ll continue on the general topic of heart regulation with information about implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.] An ...