Automated external defibrillators were applied to 137 patients, but usually inappropriately, the researchers found.
The campaign has teamed up with charity Arrhythmia Alliance which helps place defibrillators (AEDs) in communities.
Biotronik claims it was first to include wireless, automated data transmission in defibrillators and pacemakers.
He plans to bundle wireless patient-monitoring capabilities into all of his cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers.
The money is often wasted, for example on billiard tables, barbecues and, in one case, defibrillators.
Last year the charity supplied 55 defibrillators to high schools and sports clubs across the island.
The initiative aims to increase the number of defibrillators in public places and offer CPR training.
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He said the ambulance service was still looking to further increase the number of defibrillators across the region.
Defibrillators have been mainly studied for adult use, although children's heart anatomy is different from that of adults.
Heart-rhythm devices, including defibrillators and leads, made up more than 50% of St.
They also received two to three times as many pacemakers, implantable defibrillators, cardiac-bypass operations, carotid endarterectomies, and coronary-artery stents.
Emergency medical personnel will be stationed in the subways, in medical tents, and will patrol on bicycles carrying defibrillators.
The couples successfully lobbied in their home states of Ohio and New York to pass laws mandating defibrillators in schools.
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Runnymede council has worked with the ambulance service to place two defibrillators in Addlestone and three across Thorpe, Chertsey and Egham.
Some 20 million Americans now walk around embedded with high-tech gear: artificial hips and knee joints, pacemakers, heart defibrillators and more.
Defibrillators, implantable devices that deliver an electric shock to the heart to reestablish normal rhythm, began widespread clinical adoption in 2003.
Esther Takeuchi gave the world the batteries that make it possible to implant defibrillators and never have to take them out.
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Even after its regulatory problems, the company is a leader in the field of implantable cardiac defibrillators, devices that are implanted in heart-failure patients.
Five public access defibrillators have been installed in Surrey as part of a drive to increase life-saving equipment across the South East.
Carlson makes the point that defibrillators are more common in our schools than epinephrine, a point that really hits home with me.
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This is not just a marketing slogan: all products, from heart defibrillators to coffee machines, must become easy and intuitive to use.
Researchers looked at 62 patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, devices that monitor heart rhythms and emit painful shocks in response to dangerous rhythms.
Despite defibrillators and other modern gear, survival rates after cardiac arrest are around 30% inside hospitals and 5% or so outside of them.
Last week, the company announced better than expected sales, mostly due to its products that help the heart, such as defibrillators and pacemakers.
Buying Guidant fixes that problem, because the company has traditionally been a big player in the market for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD).
They'd carried two defibrillators to the poolside - but now they decided it would be too dangerous to use them, because of the water.
Guidant is developing a wireless "advanced patient management" system for defibrillators, and is evaluating whether heart rate variability is a good indicator of attacks.
Controversy has swirled about the way Guidant disclosed flaws in its defibrillators to doctors and patients, and Guidant has issued several big device recalls, hurting sales.
They make record time in a fleet of small cars, ambu-cycles, ambu-tractors and ambu-boats -- all equipped with heart defibrillators, breathing tubes, burn wraps and maternity kits.
Implantable defibrillators, which deliver a shock to the heart to prevent it from shutting down, have been surgically implanted into hundreds of thousands of patients in recent years.
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