automated external defibrillators
Assessment of Awareness and Attitudes Regarding Automated External Defibrillators (AED) In Sports Facilities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
... Background: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a leading cause of death in young athletes. Most of those events occur during exercise and in sports facilities. We sought to assess awareness and attitudes towards ...
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Ventricular Fibrillation and the Use of Automated External Defibrillators on Children
... of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been advocated in recent years as a part of the chain of survival to improve outcomes for adult cardiac arrest ...
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Ventricular Fibrillation and the Use of Automated External Defibrillators on Children
... of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been advocated in recent years as one part of the chain of survival to improve outcomes for adult cardiac arrest ...
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Spatial decision on allocating automated external defibrillators (AED) in communities by multi-criterion two-step floating catchment area (MC2SFCA)
... AED: automated external defibrillators; MC2SFCA: multi‑criterion two‑step floating catchment area; OHCA: out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrest; EMS: emer‑ gency medical service; INLA: integrat[r] ...
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Life threatening ventricular arrhythmia due to silent coronary artery spasm: usefulness of I 123 metaiodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy for detecting coronary artery spasm in the era of automated external defibrillators: a case report
... and automated external defibrillators are presently used in some ...an automated external defibrillator, and silent coronary artery spasm was considered to be the cause of this ...
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Implementing automated external defibrillators into community sports clubs/facilities: a cross sectional survey of community club member preparedness for medical emergencies
... Understanding the confidence and willingness of training programme participants to intervene in the case of a medical emergency, as well as the knowledge retained from the training cours[r] ...
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Use of Automated External Defibrillators for Children: An Update—An Advisory Statement From the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Task Force, International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation
... Additional acceptable evidence is needed to resolve these contemporary inconsistencies. The theme of the evidence suggests that children have higher tho- racic impedance than would be expected on the basis of weight ...
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Radiated radiofrequency immunity testing of automated external defibrillators - modifications of applicable standards are needed
... Public Access Defibrillator (PAD) use. Each was from a different manufacturer, provid- ing a cross section of device designs for testing. All were battery powered with no pro- vision for external power ...
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Strategic Mapping and Placement of Automated External Defibrillators in Remote Areas The case of the Region of Western Macedonia Greece
... The progress of this pilot project must be monitored and there are many problems, missing data and obstacles that need to be tackled in order to provide a robust allocation of future defibrillators. A thorough ...
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Monitoring of in-hospital cardiac arrest events with the focus on Automated External Defibrillators – a retrospective observational study
... Looking at the proceedings when the FRT handed over the patient to the MET we found a change from AED to the full-scale defibrillator in 63 % and a continuous use of the AED in 37 % of the cases. In 6 cases the ...
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A qualitative study to identify barriers to deployment and student training in the use of automated external defibrillators in schools
... Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem that can strike seemingly healthy individ- uals of any age, often without warning [1]. In Europe, the survival rate following OHCA is only ≈ 10% and ...
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Accurate Recognition and Effective Treatment of Ventricular Fibrillation by Automated External Defibrillators in Adolescents
... The Emergency Medical Services Learning Resources Center of the University of Iowa maintains a Cardiac Arrest Surveillance program for 419 primarily rural emergency ambulance services that include First Responder, EMT-D, ...
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Optimizing the deployment of automated external defibrillators by a data driven algorithmic approach
... Chan, Shen, and Siddiq 2017 used a row-and-column generation algorithm for deploying AEDs in public areas by using a conditional value-at-risk objective function to mitigate the risk of [r] ...
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Reliability of old and new ventricular fibrillation detection algorithms for automated external defibrillators
... Finally, a low pass Butterworth filter with a limiting frequency of 30 Hz is applied to the signal in order to suppress needless high- Table 1: >Quality of ventricular fibrillation de[r] ...
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Breakthrough in cardiac arrest: reports from the 4th Paris International Conference
... AED: automated external defibrillators; ALS: advanced life support; BLS: basic life support; CA: cardiac arrest; CCPR: conventional CPR; cEEG: continuous electroencephalography; CPR: cardio‑pulmonary ...
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Real-time compression feedback for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest: a multi-center randomized controlled clinical trial
... AC-PD: Active compression-passive decompression; AED: Automated external defibrillators; AHA: American Heart Association; AVF: Audiovisual feedback; CFA: Cardio First Angel ™ ; CPR: Card[r] ...
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Impact of basic life support training on the attitudes of health care workers toward cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation
... Abbreviations AEDs: Automated external defibrillators; AHA: American Heart Association; BLS: Basic life-support; CPR: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; IRB: Institutional Review Board; KAMC[r] ...
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JMateuszczykPHLP2011.pdf
... The Dakota Medical Foundation program is managed through Fargo Cass Public Health, the local public health unit in Fargo, North Dakota. The AED initiative covers Fargo, North Dakota and Moorhead, Minnesota and a radius ...
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Automated external cardioversion defibrillation monitoring in cardiac arrest: a randomized trial
... The automated external cardioverter defibrillator (AECD) is a device attached by pads to the chest wall that monitors, detects, and within seconds, automatically delivers electric countershock to an ...
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A Study of Automated External Defibrillator with the Help of Monophasic and Biphasic Pulse
... In order to overcome the situation, AED kit is utilized to distribute an electrical shock to the victim’s heart to restore a normal rhythm of the patient. AED is a portable device. It is a common treatment for sudden ...
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