Semi-automatic external defibrillation

Malignant arrhythmia, which is responsible for most of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, is ventricular fibrillation (VF). The best treatment of VF is a controlled electric shock on the chest administered in a short delay. The emergency medical technicians (EMTs) qualified to carry out this treat...

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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of emergency medicine 1994-12, Vol.1 (4), p.210-213
Hauptverfasser:	Mols, P, Clevenbergh, P, Henry, B, Decroly, M, Langen, C, Beaucarne, E, Bruyninx, J, Robert, P, Labruyère, J P, Flamand, J P
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Belgium Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - methods Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - standards Electric Countershock - methods Electric Countershock - standards Emergency Medical Services - standards Female Heart Arrest - etiology Heart Arrest - mortality Heart Arrest - therapy Humans Male Middle Aged Survival Rate Treatment Outcome Ventricular Fibrillation - complications Ventricular Fibrillation - mortality Ventricular Fibrillation - therapy
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Zusammenfassung:	Malignant arrhythmia, which is responsible for most of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, is ventricular fibrillation (VF). The best treatment of VF is a controlled electric shock on the chest administered in a short delay. The emergency medical technicians (EMTs) qualified to carry out this treatment in Belgium and in districts often succeed in arriving on the spot 8 minutes earlier than the people of the Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation (SMUR). The delegation of defibrillation to ambulance crew members however implies a specific teaching, training and a medical control. The Brussels experience shows that semi-automatic external defibrillation by EMT-Ds (SAED) is feasible when criteria for applying SAED in the pre-hospital phase are applicable.
ISSN:	0969-9546