Given our overweight and aging boomer generation, expect heart safety to emerge as a welcome and affordable concept.

The only known treatment for sudden cardiac arrest is a shock from a defibrillator, administered as quickly as possible.

Common questions about AEDs and Public Access Defibrillation (PADs), with answers from the American Heart Association

The American Red Cross now offers Citizen CPR training, a brief course in providing hands-only CPR to victims of cardiac arrest.

This article demonstrates little awareness of the need to protect high-rises as homes or workplaces as well.

This “Guidelines Highlights” summarizes the key issues and changes in the updated 2010 AHA Guidelines for SCA’s and CPR.

Concentrating on chest compressions rather than mouth-to-mouth can produce better results, says The Lancet.

Another article that indicates EMS and AEDs should have a sequential relationship during SCA’s, with EMS consolidating the earlier rescue by an AED.

It might be worth changing the emphasis of AED training so that more time is devoted to persuading lay people that the AED is effective and safe to use.

Congested urban streets, high-rise office buildings and heavily secured worksites can all slow traditional emergency medical responders from reaching SCA victims