A heart shock may restore the heart’s rhythm and is a potential treatment for atrial fibrillation (AFib). Doctors also refer to heart shock as electrical cardioversion. In AFib, a person has an ...

After a year-long public education period, trials are under way at Shock Trauma for a new cooling procedure that could save lives. An all too common scenario at Shock Trauma is the valuable time lost ...

Hemorrhagic shock is a type of shock that’s caused by heavy blood loss, which can be caused by internal or external bleeding. Hemorrhagic shock can be life threatening and needs to be treated as a ...

Gina Teixeira, an attorney with the Connecticut Legal Rights Project, got the call last May. A court was going to force a man to undergo shock therapy, and he wanted her help fighting the order. He ...