As he was being released, he was given the vest. "It's a defibrillator you wear day and night," said Jennifer Walton, the nurse practitioner with Carolina Cardiology who's been caring for Young.

That ended up being his last experience with the vest. With his three-month threshold over, Magyar had a dual pacemaker and defibrillator placed in his chest on Oct. 21. The vest was no longer needed.

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A vest containing a defibrillator may be an option for heart patients who can't use an implantable defibrillator to shock the heart back to a proper rhythm.

The alarm and words were coming from the defibrillator vest her 56-year-old husband was wearing. He was unconscious, and his heart was racing at more than 200 beats per minute.

A local family is paying gratitude to a defibrillator vest they say saved their loved one's life.

Permanent defibrillators cannot be implanted until 90 days after a coronary artery bypass graft to allow for revascularization of the heart, or 40 days after a myocardial infarction.

Larry and Sally Wagner credit the defibrillator vest with saving his life in October, after it detected his heart had stopped beating. Photo courtesy Colorado Public News By Colorado Public News ...

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 ...

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With hundreds of thousands of people dying from sudden cardiac arrest each year, one man credits the life vest for saving his life.

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 their heart ...