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Principles of External Defibrillators
Electrical defibrillation is the only effective therapy for cardiac arrest caused by ventricular fibrillation (VF) [1, 2] or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT). Scientific evidence to sup‐ port early defibrillation is overwhelming [3-5], being delay from collapse to delivery of the first shock the single most important determinant of survival [6, 7]. If defibrillation is deliv‐ ered promptl...
متن کاملAutomated external defibrillators in the workplace.
a. An AED is not required by the OHSR; however, AED training is included in all of the OFA and OFA equivalent courses. No separate certificate is issued for the CPR/AED training received in an OFA course the training is simply part of the course. Workers who possess a valid OFA certificate were able to demonstrate competency deploying an AED as part of their training or examination and were dul...
متن کاملTask Force 10: automated external defibrillators.
1. Estes NAM III, Link MS, Cannom D, et al. Report of the NASPE policy conference on arrhythmias and the athlete. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol 2001;12:1208–19. 2. Kloner RA. Illicit drug use in the athlete as a contributor to cardiac events. In: Estes NAM III, Salem D, Wang P, editors. Sudden Cardiac Death in the Athlete. Armonk, NY: Futura Pub. Co., 1998:441–52. 3. Cregler LL. Substance abuse i...
متن کاملPublic use of automated external defibrillators.
BACKGROUND Automated external defibrillators save lives when they are used by designated personnel in certain public settings. We performed a two-year prospective study at three Chicago airports to assess whether random bystanders witnessing out-of-hospital cardiac arrests would retrieve and successfully use automated external defibrillators. METHODS Defibrillators were installed a brisk 60-t...
متن کاملSudden cardiac arrest and automated external defibrillators.
major (approximately 66–94.5%) cause of sudden death worldwide.1–4 The remaining causes of sudden death are noncardiac conditions, including epilepsy, alcohol abuse, pulmonary embolism, trauma, cerebrovascular accidents and unknown etiology.5 The annual occurrence of sudden death is 350,000–450,000 in the United States, 10.5 per 100,000 population in United Kingdom and 37 per 100,000 in Japan. ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4812443