In the past, flat-chested manikins were typically used, first aid trainers say.

A shortage of defibrillators - which shock the heart - and a lack of public awareness could be costing thousands of lives every year, research suggests. Experts found that fewer than 2% of heart ...

More than 10,000 school children are set to be trained how to carry out life-saving CPR using a defibrillator. South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) staff will lead the training at almost 100 schools ...

This means that when someone has a cardiac arrest (when the heart stops pumping blood around your body) and a bystander calls 999, the ambulance services can direct them to the nearest registered ...

A family has installed 50 defibrillators in rural communities, in memory of a father who died from a cardiac arrest. Billy Morley, 45 and from Cleator Moor, Cumbria, was at a friend's stag-do in ...