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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 implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) or automated implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) is a device implantable inside the body, able...
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    An automated external defibrillator or automatic electronic defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the life-threatening...
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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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    Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or S-ICD, is an implantable medical device for detecting and terminating ventricular tachycardia...
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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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    external cardiac defibrillators produced by medical technology company Physio-Control. In 2020 the company recalled some of its defibrillators after it learned...
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    Biphasic defibrillation may be better than monophasic. While waiting for a defibrillator, a precordial thump may be attempted (However reserved to those who...
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  • stars out of five and writes: "...this bleeding hearts story needs a defibrillator ... Quite why either Domhnall Gleeson or Andrea Riseborough signed up...
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    tachycardia. Defibrillators may also be used as part of post-cardiac arrest management. These defibrillators include wearable defibrillator (such as LifeVest)...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    by EMS services, often incorporate a defibrillator into the patient monitor itself. These monitor/defibrillators usually have the normal capabilities...
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    type of pacemaker called an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator combines pacemaker and defibrillator functions in a single implantable device. Others,...
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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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  • Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial and MADIT II are implantable cardioverter defibrillator (or ICD) trials which investigate whether...
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    shock of a defibrillator. When a victim is falling unconscious because of a cardiac arrest, it is important that someone asks for a defibrillator to use it...
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  • electrophysiology and the co-inventor of the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator. He served in several professional capacities at Sinai Hospital and...
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  • the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker. In particular, Berkovits invented the "demand pacemaker" and the DC defibrillator. Berkovits...
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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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    diagnosed with congestive heart failure and had to wear a LifeVest defibrillator machine in order to counteract its symptoms. He revealed his health...
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  • the provider should call for help again and get an automated external defibrillator (AED). Once help and the AED arrives, the provider should place the...
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    over 6,000 have been converted to community libraries, to house public defibrillators, and for other purposes. One has been converted into an aquarium. Some...
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    Avive is an automated external defibrillator manufacturer based in Brisbane, California. It is known for developing Avive AED and 4 Minute City program...
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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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  • advance in providing BLS is the availability of the automated external defibrillator or AED. This improves survival outcomes in cardiac arrest cases. One...
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  • of beta blockers, verapamil or disopyramide. An implantable cardiac defibrillator may be recommended in those with certain types of irregular heartbeat...
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    other shockable rhythms) using a manual or automatic defibrillator, though some newer defibrillators can do both, and pads and an electrical stimulus to...
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