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Defibrillator Monitors
This channel includes news and new technology innovations about defibrillator monitors. These are used by EMS paramedics to monitor the 12 lead ECG (EKG) of patients and deliver shocks to rtestorn normal sinus rhythm in patrient who go into dangerous arrhythmias or sudden cardiac arrest.
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The skin presents a formidable barrier to life-saving defibrillators, but a team of students from Rice University believes it has found a way around that problem.
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Zoll Medical Corp. announced that the company’s Hospital Wearable Defibrillator (HWD) has been granted premarket approval (PMA) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and begin U...
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Zoll Medical Corp. announced that patients experience a high one-year survival rate following use of the LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator. New results from the Prospective Registry of Patients...
The Zoll LifeVest wearable defibrillator system was evaluated in the late-breaking VEST Trial presented at ACC 2018 earlier this year.
Feature | Defibrillator Monitors | July 10, 2018 | Michael J. Mirro, M.D.
Following the...
The automated external defibrillator add-on developed by Rice University students is a pad of needles that break through the skin's natural impedance barrier to deliver an electric shock to the heart of a patient in cardiac arrest. (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
News | Defibrillator Monitors | April 16, 2018
April 16, 2018 — The skin presents a formidable barrier to life-saving defibrillators, but a team of students from...
Jeffrey Olgin, M.D., F.A.C.C., Division of Cardiology, UCSF
On behalf of VEST investigators
News | ACC | March 13, 2018
March 13, 2018 – Wearing a lightweight vest equipped with a cardioverter...
News | February 12, 2018
February 12, 2018 — Philips is recalling the HeartStart MRx Defibrillator due to a defect in the device's Gas...
News | Wearable Sensors | January 22, 2018
January 22, 2018 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced last week it is providing information and...
News | Wearable Sensors | December 28, 2017
December 28, 2017 — Zoll Medical Corp. and Myant, Inc., a high-tech advanced manufacturing company, announced they...
News | Defibrillator Monitors | October 16, 2017
October 16, 2017 — Zoll Canada, a subsidiary of Zoll Medical Corp., announced it has won the tender to equip all...
Feature | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | May 11, 2017
May 11, 2017 — A new study shows that the use of a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) is safe and effective...
Technology | Defibrillator Monitors | April 24, 2017
April 24, 2017 — Physio-Control announced April 19 that the company’s HeartSine samaritan PAD 360P (SAM 360P) fully...
News | Defibrillator Monitors | March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017 — Philips and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the company has initiated a...
Technology | Defibrillator Monitors | March 10, 2017
March 10, 2017 — Zoll Medical Corp. announced that the company’s...
A Physio-Control LifePak CR Plus defibrillator shown in use during a hand-off to paramedics, who use larger, more sophisticated defibrillator-monitors (behind gloved paramedic).
Feature | Sudden Cardiac Arrest | September 28, 2016 | Allied Market Research
Automated external defibrillators (AED) are portable and lightweight devices used to deliver an electric shock...
