Approximately 460,000 US deaths occur each year as a result of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA), making sudden cardiac death the leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 95% of ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2008;5(11):690-692. The recommendation for public use of AEDs in the 2000 international guidelines for resuscitation [2] was not readily accepted in Japan. One of the ...

Public Access Defibrillation Underutilized in Cardiac Arrest In out-of-hospital (OOH) cardiac arrest, public access defibrillation (PAD) prior to ambulance arrival may be only rarely used. (HealthDay ...

Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The survival rate for witnessed, out-of-hospital, sudden cardiac arrest is approximately 5 percent in most communities ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An increase in the number of public-accessible automated external defibrillators was associated with an increase ...

A study led the University of Warwick suggests that people are reluctant to use public access defibrillators to treat cardiac arrests. The analysis of existing international studies, which has been ...

New research presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia shows that use of public access defibrillation on people suffering cardiac arrest is associated with a large increase in chances of survival.

Defibtech, a manufacturer of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), applauded the introduction of H.R.5897, Public Access to Defibrillation in Transportation Facilities Act of 2025, a bipartisan ...

Public-access defibrillation is known to improve survival rate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but evidence on a population level is currently lacking. In a Japanese registry study involving 43,762 ...

The recommendation for public use of AEDs in the 2000 international guidelines for resuscitation 2 was not readily accepted in Japan. One of the barriers to the use of AEDs by lay people was article ...

GUILFORD, Conn., Nov. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Defibtech, a leading manufacturer of automated external defibrillators (AEDs), today applauded the introduction of H.R.5897, Public Access to ...

To the Editor: In their study of the effect of public-access defibrillation on outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan, Kitamura et al. (Oct. 27 issue) 1 found an improved survival rate ...