Study findings identify witness recognition of the victim as the first in a series of actions that lead to better-than-usual survival.
Putting pacemakers and defibrillators into an antibacterial, absorbable envelope protects patients, study shows.
Survival likelihood almost double when first-responders use portable defibrillator, UW Medicine-led study shows.
UW Medicine cardiologists have developed a tool to predict which heart-failure patients stand to gain most, and least, from an implanted defibrillator.
