Patent ID: 9579515
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61N

Claim:
1. One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage devices for managing care of a person receiving emergency cardiac assistance, the one or more machine-readable storage devices storing instructions that are executable by one or more processing devices to perform operations comprising: monitoring, with an external defibrillator, multiple parameters of the person receiving emergency cardiac assistance; determining from at least one of the multiple parameters, a value of trans-thoracic impedance of the person receiving emergency cardiac care; determining, from at least a second one of the multiple parameters corresponding to an electrocardiogram of the person receiving emergency cardiac assistance, one or more values representative of a likelihood of a shock effectiveness for the person receiving emergency cardiac assistance; determining, as a function of at least the value of trans-thoracic impedance and the one or more values representative of the likelihood of the shock effectiveness, an indication of whether a shock provided to the person receiving emergency medical assistance will be effective in terminating an arrhythmic episode; and electrically energizing a switch of the external defibrillator or presenting an indicator of success to a rescuer as a result of determining the indication of whether the shock will be effective in terminating the arrhythmic episode.