Patent ID: 7953478

Claim:
A method for displaying status information on a video display of a defibrillator, comprising: providing a defibrillator having a user “on” state and a user “off” state, the user “on” state comprising an initiation of a rescue; performing a self-test on the defibrillator to obtain defibrillator status information, the self-test being initiated by programming on the defibrillator and being performed while the defibrillator is in the user “off” state; storing in memory the defibrillator status information; with the defibrillator in the user “off” state, the defibrillator receiving an instruction to send the defibrillator status information stored in memory to a video display of the defibrillator; sending the defibrillator status information to the video display while the defibrillator remains in the user “off” state; and displaying the defibrillator status information on the video display while the defibrillator remains in the user “off” state.