Automated External Defibrillators (AED) (cont.)

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Media file 1: This is a heart tracing (ECG) of a person experiencing ventricular fibrillation. Ventricular fibrillation is the most common ECG finding when an adult suffers cardiac arrest.

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Media file 2: Ventricular fibrillation can be successfully treated with defibrillation.

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Media file 3: Minutes count. For every minute that a person in ventricular fibrillation is not defibrillated, the chances of resuscitation drop by almost 10% per minute.

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Media file 4: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can temporarily provide some oxygen to the brain.

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Media file 5: The Chain of Survival involves Early Access to 911, Early CPR, Early Defibrillation, and Early Advanced Life Support.

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Media file 6: Call 911 immediately when an adult is found to be unresponsive.

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Media file 7: CPR buys some time until a defibrillator becomes available.

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Media file 8: Early defibrillation is the most important link in the Chain of Survival.

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Media file 9: Early advanced life support is the last link in the Chain of Survival.

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Media file 10: Manual defibrillators are used by trained health care professionals.

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Media file 11: In the 1970s, portable defibrillators began to be used outside the hospital by many Emergency Medical Services systems.

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Media file 12: Automated external defibrillators allowed defibrillation to be performed with a minimal amount of training.

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Media file 13: The use of AEDs by police units allowed defibrillation to be performed even before the ambulance arrived.

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Media file 14: Ventricular fibrillation victim Julie Lycksell, an operating room nurse, was resuscitated with an AED by Suffolk County, New York Police Officer James Briarton.

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Media file 15: See how easy it is to use an AED.

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Media file 16: One AED manufacturer provides a pediatric electrode cable that allows the AED to be used on children younger than 8 years.

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