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American Airlines saves 50th SCA victim
American Airlines automated external defibrillators (AEDs)
have saved the lives of 50 people in the seven years since
American began installing AEDs on its fleet of aircraft.
Save No. 50 came Tuesday night at Chicago’s O’Hare
International Airport when a flight attendant at a boarding
gate used the AED to save the life of a 67-year-old Virginia
man deplaning a flight from Reno, Nevada. The man collapsed
outside the gate boarding door. A doctor began CPR and the
flight attendant brought the AED from the aircraft and applied
the pads to the man’s chest. In a few seconds, the
device voice-prompted the flight attendant to administer
a shock, accomplished by pushing a button. She delivered
three shocks before the victim was revived. More.....
ZOLL AED+PLUS Sucess
- ADA seal of acceptance
CHELMSFORD, MASS.-ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL),
a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and software solutions,
announced today that the ZOLL AED Plus™ automated external
defibrillator (AED) received the American Dental Association's
(ADA) Seal of Acceptance for a three-year period. Fewer than
10 percent of the more than 200,000 medical and dental offices
in the United States are equipped with an AED. In these offices,
an AED can be an important piece of life-saving equipment
given the fact that sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a leading
cause of death. SCA can strike without warning and can kill
within minutes; most victims have no prior symptoms.
The ZOLL AED Plus is the only AED that can help rescuers
perform effective CPR because it allows them to see and hear
how well they are performing the rate and depth of chest
compressions during CPR. This instantaneous feedback makes
the AED Plus the only AED that can help assess and treat
nearly every SCA victim, making it the only Full-Rescue AED
available today.
AED+Plus tops for repelling
water and dust - Ingress protection Case Study from Ottawa
Police Service
Constable Rick Giroux of the Ottawa Police Service is assigned
to the harbor patrol. His boat is outfitted with a ZOLL AED
Plus™ automated external defibrillator (AED). He recalls
a rather unique situation back in October that involved this
AED.
“Our patrol boat was docked because of an impending
hurricane,” said Giroux. “We had a pump going
inside the boat to prevent it from sinking. Once the storm
hit, however, the pump failed, and the boat took on water.”
As the boat filled with water, it flipped over and ripped
the cleats right off the pier. Although the boat didn’t
sink, all the equipment, including the AED Plus, was submerged
for four hours. More.....
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