Escambia County has quadrupled its resuscitation rate for cardiac arrests, raising the survival rate from less than one in 10 ...

A paramedic treating a patient having a cardiac arrest had a heart attack himself—and was saved by colleagues. Senior emergency medical technician Jeremy Williams, 53, was resuscitating a 30-year-old ...

Gaston Emergency Medical Services is the first emergency services agency in North Carolina to receive a newly developed medical device that will help paramedics save the lives of cardiac patients. The ...

A new study, presented this week at the American College of Cardiology 2011 Scientific Sessions, shows that heart attack victims who got an electrocardiogram (ECG, or more commonly known as an EKG) in ...

Cheri Hart walks into a room joking, vivacious and full of life, but there were a few minutes in October when that wasn’t the ...