Only one implantable-defibrillator patient in five ends up needing a jolt to the heart.
Instead of killing, however, Brock's on-screen character goes around reviving enemies with a defibrillator.
It has also suffered scandals, including a wide recall of a defibrillator component in 2007.
In fact, there's no known instance of either hack--automobile or auto defibrillator--outside of a research setting.
His heart stopped for 78 minutes but he was resuscitated after repeated shocks from a defibrillator.
Yun and Lee expect 20% or more annual growth in defibrillator sales for the next five years.
Paramedics from Great Western Ambulance Service, playing on the next pitch, used their defibrillator to revive him.
He described the ICD defibrillator as a "self-contained emergency room in the chest" that monitors the heartbeat.
The automated external defibrillator is a portable, self-contained machine that can shock the heart back into rhythm.
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Two lives that could have been saved, their parents said, with one solution: an automated external defibrillator.
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Guernsey's first public access defibrillator has been unveiled by former Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba at Footes Lane.
If the heart rhythm isn't restored, which requires a defibrillator, death usually occurs within 10 to 12 minutes.
Around the same time the implantable defibrillator was invented, building Medtronic and St.
The device, called the Chronicle, caught a brief heart stoppage one night, and Swenson's doctors later embedded a tiny defibrillator.
It wasn't until they reached the ambulance that they used a defibrillator - at least 24 minutes after the 999 call.
My condition was too severe for any of those so they suggested I have an implanted defibrillator fitted inside my chest.
Three years ago he had an implanted defibrillator embedded in his chest, which ensures his heart beats at a regular rate.
It was unclear whether the school had a defibrillator nearby and whether such equipment could have helped the boy, authorities said.
For the next several years, Vollmer worked out and competed with an external defibrillator at poolside in case the worst happened.
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Defibrillator leads are often bound to the walls of veins and the heart by scar tissue, an obstacle that worsens with time.
Yes, the high school my sons recently graduated from has a defibrillator.
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Learn CPR and get training on an automated external defibrillator, or AED.
After the test, the doctors implanted an ICD, or implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
Meanwhile, the San Francisco kicking game should come with its own defibrillator.
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If a defibrillator had been nearby, "there is no doubt in my mind Louis would be alive today, " said Louis' dad, John Acompora.
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Muamba's heart stopped for 78 minutes after he collapsed on the pitch and medics used a defibrillator several times to restart his heart.
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"We feel better about our current product line in the implantable defibrillator area than at any time in the history of Medtronic, " he says.
Hugo Campos has spent several years fighting for his right to access the data that is generated by the cardiac defibrillator implanted in his chest.
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Three teachers immediately grabbed a defibrillator and also began performing CPR.
Medtronic, whose devices were used in the big defibrillator trial, plans to apply to the government to get Medicare to reimburse for the broad new use.
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