The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is advising that a number of Defibtech Automated External Defibrillator (AED) pads supplied to Louth and the wider Irish market have been affixed with ...

Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...

Placing defibrillator pads on the chest and back, rather than the usual method of putting two on the chest, increases the odds of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by more than ...