Patent ID: 8317519

Claim:
An apparatus for providing cardiopulmonary or cardiocerebral resuscitation prompts, comprising: a portable housing; a user interface having one or more resuscitation criteria selectors for inputting resuscitation criteria, the resuscitation criteria including ventilation method selection and optionally further including one or more of the following: patient age selection, user number selection, and resuscitation method selection; a processor configured to execute a set of instructions that generate cardiopulmonary or cardiocerebral resuscitation prompts, the instructions based at least in part upon the resuscitation criteria input from the one or more resuscitation criteria selectors; and a memory including the instructions for selectively performing the cardiopulmonary resuscitation prompts and cardiocerebral resuscitation prompts; wherein the apparatus is configured to output at least some of the generated prompts as visual prompts, audible prompts, or visual and audible prompts, and further wherein the generated prompts are output in at least one associated resuscitation sequence, the at least one associated resuscitation sequence further generated over an associated sequence length of time.