Wherever 9-year-old Adeline Evelyn Dinin goes, her AED is probably by her side. School. Dance class. Girl Scout meetings.

A state program has helped the White River Township Fire buy new automated heart monitors.

An emergency-room doctor attaches paddles to a patient's chest and delivers an electric jolt to the heart. That's a defibrillator in action, a desperate attempt to jump-start a heart whose rhythms ...

monitor and a defibrillator, which allows emergency responders to not only monitor a patient’s heart activity but also to deliver lifesaving shocks if needed. This dual capability treats life ...