INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...
Les Geddes (1921-2009), the Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, created innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators and ligament repair to ...
Cardiac arrest remains one of the most urgent and unforgiving medical emergencies, where every minute can determine survival and neurological recovery.
Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid ...
Early defibrillation plays a key role in improving survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests due to ventricular fibrillation (ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrests), and the use of ...
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of sudden death in athletes during high-level, organised sport. Patient-related and event-related factors provide an opportunity for rapid intervention ...
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Public defib advice change could cost lives
A man who has helped install hundreds of public defibrillators in Yorkshire has warned "lives could be lost" because of changes to how the life-saving devices are being deployed to incidents.
A man who has helped install hundreds of public defibrillators in Yorkshire has warned "lives could be lost" because of changes to how the life-saving devices are being deployed to incidents.
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