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  2. A Michigan first: Sparrow doctor installs a new type of heart ...

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    A new type of internal heart defibrillator, implanted for the first time in Michigan at Sparrow Hospital, could help younger patients live longer. ... The wire goes near the heart, but does not go ...

  3. Defibrillation - Wikipedia

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    Defibrillation is a treatment for life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, specifically ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib) and non-perfusing ventricular tachycardia (V-Tach). [1] [2] A defibrillator delivers a dose of electric current (often called a counter-shock) to the heart.

  4. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - Wikipedia

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    Congestive heart failure patients that were implanted with an ICD had an all-cause death risk 23% lower than placebo and an absolute decrease in mortality of 7.2 percentage points after five years in the overall population. 1 Reporting in 1999, the Antiarrhythmics Versus Implantable Defibrillators (AVID) trial consisted of 1,016 patients, and ...

  5. Emergency medical responder levels by U.S. state - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming has adopted the National Registry model with an addition of IEMT. The IEMT has all of the skills of an AEMT with the addition of additional medications, endotracheal intubation, cardiac drugs and skills (manual defibrillator, epi 1:10000, etc.) chest darts and pain management.

  6. Wearable cardioverter defibrillator - Wikipedia

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    An external, wearable cardioverter-defibrillator with defibrillation features similar to an ICD could be a solution to be used as “bridge” to protect these patients from SCD. In 1986, M. Stephen Heilman and Larry Bowling founded LIFECOR and started the development of the first wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD). It was named LifeVest®.

  7. Automated external defibrillator - Wikipedia

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    An automated external defibrillator or automatic electronic defibrillator (AED) is a portable electronic device that automatically diagnoses the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation (VF) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia, [1] and is able to treat them through defibrillation, the application of electricity which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re ...

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