Parental instincts and quick reaction time led to two Central Illinois parents saving their child’s life.It started at home ...

It is treated by implanting a defibrillator to shock the heart back into a normal rhythm as needed, or by inserting a catheter to ablate, or burn, scar tissue inside the heart so it can no longer ...

A paramedic who set out to install a single defibrillator in her town, has stormed past her target and placed a total of 30 ...

In cardioversion, the heart is given a shock to restore it from an abnormally fast rhythm ... An ICD constantly monitors the heart and shifts it back into normal rhythm if it starts to beat out of ...

Automatic external defibrillators (AED): Used to deliver an electrical shock through the chest wall to the heart to stop the ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation and to restore normal ...

The shock can sometimes get the heart back into a normal rhythm. AEDs are kept in many public places, including schools and sports facilities. They are made to be easy for bystanders to use because ...

Atrial fibrillation (afib) is a rapid and irregular heart rhythm that originates from the top chambers ... or an electrical cardioversion (an electrical shock to the heart) to interrupt the atrial ...