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    Defibrillation (redirect from Defibrillator)
    fibrillation (V-Fib) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach). A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to...
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    An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular...
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    An implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able...
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  • A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) is a non-invasive, external device for patients at risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). It allows physicians...
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    automated defibrillator (AED), but only if the AED is available within a few minutes. Attempting defibrillation with the automated external defibrillator (AED)...
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    invasive implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which they call the EMBLEM subcutaneous implantable defibrillator (S-ICD). Boston Scientific was formed...
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    Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or S-ICD, is an implantable medical device for detecting and terminating ventricular tachycardia...
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    improve outcomes. In post-resuscitation care, an implantable cardiac defibrillator may be considered to reduce the chance of death from recurrence. Per...
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    Biphasic defibrillation may be better than monophasic. While waiting for a defibrillator, a precordial thump may be attempted (by those who have experience)...
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  • Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial and MADIT II are implantable cardioverter defibrillator (or ICD) trials which investigate whether...
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    of pacemaker, called an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, combines pacemaker and defibrillator functions in a single implantable device. Others...
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    of the closed-chest cardiac massage and his invention of the cardiac defibrillator. After obtaining his doctorate degree in engineering from the Karlsruhe...
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    sudden cardiac death may be treated using an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). In those without symptoms the risk of death is much lower, and...
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    by EMS services, often incorporate a defibrillator into the patient monitor itself. These monitor/defibrillators usually have the normal capabilities...
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    monitors and external cardiac defibrillators produced by medical technology company Physio-Control. Lifepak defibrillators are manufactured and distributed...
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  • using a defibrillator while the patient's skin is wet, inadvertently shocking himself into unconsciousness at the same time. Defibrillators and Kutner...
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    procedures including sympathetic denervation and implantation of a defibrillator. It is thought to affect as many as one in ten thousand people and is...
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  • drones to deliver critical medical supplies, such as Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), life-saving medications, and remote diagnostic equipment, directly...
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  • into an empty cabin to keep warm. 31 13 "A Boss, a Bear Claw and a Defibrillator" Scott Ellis Teleplay by : Jim Patterson & Heide Perlman & Jamie Rhonheimer...
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    "Shocking Defibrillator". b5media. Archived from the original on 2008-05-08. Retrieved 2009-05-22. the team will test whether a defibrillator can burn...
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  • Single- and dual-chamber defibrillators "Biventricular" devices for patients with congestive heart failure Subcutaneous defibrillators Leadless pacemakers...
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    this phenomenon resulting in the failure of implanted cardioverter-defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy, which can be fatal. The condition's...
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    and inventor. Lown was the original developer of the direct current defibrillator for cardiac resuscitation, and the cardioverter for correcting rapid...
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  • fibrillation (VF). Receiving defibrillation from an automated external defibrillator (AED) is a key component of the 'chain of survival' for victims of SCA...
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    Short QT syndrome can be treated using an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator or medications including quinidine. Short QT syndrome was first described...
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  • Indicator". After moving to Seattle, he developed the first DC Defibrillator. Medical defibrillators at the time used Alternating current which caused patients...
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  • medicine and paramedic services with the invention of the portable defibrillator. Pantridge was born in Hillsborough, County Down (now Royal Hillsborough)...
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    surgical, catheter ablation, and placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Prior to the decision of the treatment option, programmed electrical...
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  • heart stops due to hypothermia. An ambulance crew revives her with a defibrillator and she wakes up in the hospital with Ellis at her bedside. They profess...
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  • Blood infusion set Cannula, intraveneous (separated) Catheter, Foley Defibrillator Dialyser, hemodialysis Enema bag and enema bucket Enema bulb Enema set...
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