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Heart defibrillators not as safe as your doctor says they are: Study shows multiple deaths caused by faulty wires

4/5/2012 - Many doctors hail them as miracle devices that can prevent heart patients from dying of cardiac arrest. But heart defibrillators may not be as safe and effective as the medical industry claims they are, as a new study published in the journal Heart Rhythm has found that defects inherent in many of the...

Defibrillators Found Useless in Saving Women's Lives

1/3/2010 - There is no evidence that implantable defibrillators are able to save women's lives, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Providence Hospital Heart Institute and Medical Center and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. "Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are being...

Home Defibrillators Found Medically Useless in Saving Lives

10/21/2008 - Expensive home defibrillator machines do not improve heart attack patients' chances of survival, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Seattle Institute for Cardiac Research, presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Chicago and published in the New England...

Fish Fatty Acids May Prevent More Sudden Deaths Than Defibrillators (press release)

10/18/2006 - Omega-3 fatty acids may prevent more sudden deaths than automated external defibrillators in homes and public places or implanted defibrillators, according to the results of a new study. Researchers compared these preventive strategies in a computer-simulated community of 100,000 people that resembled...

Automated external defibrillators are frequently recalled (press release)

10/6/2006 - A new study shows that automated external defibrillators (AEDs), the devices used to resuscitate victims of sudden cardiac arrest, had a greater than 20 percent chance of being recalled for potential malfunction over the past decade. The findings, reported in the August 9 issue of The Journal of...

Omega-3 fatty acids outperform automated external defibrillators in saving lives from heart attacks

9/1/2006 - New research published in the October issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine indicates that consuming omega-3 fatty acids may be more effective at preventing sudden cardiac deaths than automated external defibrillators or implanted defibrillators. Researchers from the Heart Center at...

Automated external defibrillators prone to failure defects; may have killed hundreds

8/9/2006 - A study of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) -- lifesaving devices now ubiquitous in malls, airports and even churches -- found that unit malfunctions have caused roughly 370 deaths since their inception. According to the study, published in the Aug. 9 issue of the Journal of the American...

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