I believe that the defibrillator machine saved his life. I saw them shock him three times and then stabilize him enough to get him on the stretcher and out to the ambulance. I really didn't think he was going to make it.
I believe that the defibrillator machine saved his life. I saw them shock him three times and then stabilize him enough to get him on the stretcher and out to the ambulance. I really didn't think he was going to make it.
She said to me that she had been shocked. At first I thought she was talking about a static-electricity shock, but I looked at her and her eyes were big and I realized that her defibrillator had just gone off.
I talked to a local person who's into philanthropy for a defibrillator.
Once we had a volunteer show up at class to teach volunteers to use an AED (automatic external defibrillator) and found a person on the floor in full cardiac arrest with an AED on the wall.
I'm going to try to get a program together training more employees for CPR and defibrillator training.
Patients may also get discouraged given the implantable heart defibrillator recall activity that has occurred at Guidant and to a lesser extent at Medtronic and St. Jude of late.
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