If this is not your name, click here. Other Ophthalmic Surgery Organ Transplantation Orthopaedics Other Osteoarthritis Osteoporosis Otitis Otorhino. The 500 analyzes a patient's condition and tells the operator, through a voice prompt, whether to apply a defibrillation shock. Safeguards built into the device will not allow it to give a shock if it is not called for.
Quick response is essential to increasing the survival rate from sudden cardiac arrest.
With each minute that passes before the first shock is delivered, a patient's chance of surviving drops by about 10 percent. Our goal is to double Cincinnati's survivability rate. Treatment by first responders is actively advocated by the American Heart Association and other national and community organizations committed to reducing the number of deaths from sudden cardiac arrest. Police forces, fire departments, security firms and airlines are among the initial audiences investigating the use of AEDs. Dr. Michael Sayre, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati Medical School and medical director for the Cincinnati Fire Division, will conduct the two-year study.