Cardiac Arrest

Bystanders in public places able to operate AEDs

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 17th, 2002

A 2-year observational study published in theNew England Journal of Medicine has found that random bystanders at three metropolitan airports who had never operated or been trained in using automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) successfully resuscitated people experiencing cardiac arrest.

"This research should be billed as the first true 'public access defibrillation' project and provides strong support that similar programs should be widely implemented," said Dr. Paul Pepe, chairman of emergency medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and an author of the study.

The study examined whether bystanders in...

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