Automated external defibrillator

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Automated external defibrillator

Defibrillation was invented and Batelli, two physiologists from University of Geneva, Switzerland. The first use on a human was by Claude Beck, professor of surgery at Western Reserve University that ventricular fibrillation often occurred in hearts which were fundamentally healthy, "Heart too good to die", Automated external defibrillator and that there must be a way of saving them. Beck Automated external defibrillator first used the technique successfully on a 14 year old boy who Automated external defibrillator was being operated on for a congenital chest defect. The boy's Automated external defibrillator chest was surgically opened, and manual cardiac Automated external defibrillator massage was undertaken for 45 minutes until the arrival Automated external defibrillator of the defibrillator. Beck used internal paddles either side of the heart, along with procaine amide, a heart drug, and achieved return of normal sinus rhythm.The technique Automated external defibrillator was often ineffective in reverting VF while morphological Automated external defibrillator studies showed damage to the cells of the heart muscle post mortem. The Automated external defibrillator nature of the AC machine with a large transformer also made these units very hard to transport, and they tended to be large units on wheels.

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