New Tucson company aims to put life-saving devices in neighborhoods

CardioSpark is a way to “make neighborhoods cardiac safe,” said one of the company’s founders, Tucson cardiologist and mechanical engineer Carter Newton, who is working with Dr. Marvin Slepian, of the Arizona Center for Accelerated Biomedical Innovation, and Dr. Karl Kern, a cardiologist and professor at the University of Arizona and chair of the Sarver Heart Center Resuscitation Research Group.