The University of Chicago has been selected as one of twenty-five sites throughout the United States and Canada to participate in an important research study.
Cardiac disease is the major cause of death in the United States.
It is estimated that a thousand people die each day from sudden cardiac arrest. If this condition is not reversed within a few minutes, death occurs. The defibrillator delivers an electric shock that restarts the heart s normal rhythm. To be effective, this shock needs to be delivered at the earliest time after VF occurs. The defibrillators have become small, portable, and easy to use.