CMS cited Houston-based Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center for not keeping working defibrillator paddles in its operating room during a heart transplant for a patient who died two months after the ...

The federal government has cited Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston for not having working defibrillator paddles in the operating room during a January heart transplant. The transplant ...

Healthcare workers: We want to hear from you. Tell us about conditions at your hospital or workplace by filling out the form at the bottom of this article. A patient at TriStar Centennial Medical ...

Last time, I started talking about how on TV shows, defibrillating the heart with the wired-up paddles always works beautifully, after the heart monitor has gone flat, emitting only a mournful ...

"We're losing him. Out of my way, nurse!" The quick-thinking young doctor charges the defibrillator paddles and places them on the chest of the lifeless patient, whose cardiac monitor is showing a ...