This procedure is sometimes appropriate in patients no longer needing or desiring defibrillation backup at battery depletion but still having pacing indications.
Wide-spread use many not be the optimal use of a municipal or corporate budget, but on-site devices have the unique advantage of decreasing the time to defibrillation.
Volunteer development coordinator at South East Coast Ambulance Service, Daniel Holland, said early defibrillation and effective CPR could significantly increase a patient's survival rates during a cardiac arrest.
PulsePoint provides the ability to crowd-source Good Samaritans in your community to reduce collapse-to-CPR and collapse-to-defibrillation times by simultaneously dispatching nearby CPR-trained citizens to those in need of CPR.
Emergency-services experts say that in general odds of survival are reduced by 10% for every minute a person is collapsed from a sudden cardiac arrest without cardiopulmonary resuscitation or defibrillation.
These left-ventricular leads are intended to improve the efficiency of the heart in patients with heart failure, but are not responsible for delivering immediate life-sustaining pacing or life-saving defibrillation therapy.