PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The FDA recently approved a wearable defibrillator to protect children at risk for sudden cardiac arrest. The vest is a good alternative to an implantable device that requires ...

MONDAY, March 28, 2016 -- A vest containing a defibrillator may be an option for some heart patients who can't use an implantable defibrillator -- the device that can shock the heart back to a proper ...

A Pawnee County man is recovering at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital Thursday morning. He’s only the second Oklahoman to have his heart jump started by a special device. Ralph Dooley still has his sense ...

TULSA, Okla. — Mike Larkin, a 75-year-old military veteran, and his wife Terry are about to take the trip of a lifetime. Mike said he and his wife are going to Paris for a cruise through Prague and ...

FRIDAY, Sept. 28, 2018 -- Wearable defibrillators do not lower the chances of dying from sudden cardiac arrest among high-risk patients who've just had a heart attack, a new investigation concludes.

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirtlike garment to deliver lifesaving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. The students ...

A wearable automatic defibrillator may be an alternative to an implantable cardiac defibrillator for a small group of patients, say researchers. There are few large, randomized and controlled clinical ...

(Reuters Health) - Patients who have just survived a heart attack and consequently have a dangerously-weak heart face a high risk of sudden death. Giving them a wearable defibrillator that can restart ...

The risk for death from any cause, a secondary endpoint, did fall significantly for patients using the wearable cardioverter-defibrillator (WCD), a harness with monitoring and shock-delivery ...

A vest containing a defibrillator may be an option for some heart patients who can't use an implantable defibrillator -- the device that can shock the heart back to a proper rhythm if needed. That's ...

The LifeVest (ZOLL Medical) provided no extra protection against arrhythmic death in patients with a low ejection fraction assigned to use the "wearable defibrillator" within a week of discharge ...