Prolonging CPR doesn't help cardiac arrest patients putting to rest one of the raging debates in emergency medicine.
More than 1,000 cardiac arrest deaths in 15 years linked to automatic defibrillator (AED) failures; 23 percent due to battery failures, according to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched an initiative to improve the safety and effectiveness of Automated External Defibrillators (AED). The FDA has urged manufacturers to review current practices for identifying, reporting and acting on complaints. Read more about it:
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Class I Recall Issued for AEDs with Software Defects:
Defibtech Issues Voluntary Recall of DDU-100 series Automatic External Defibrillators (AED):
Philips gets FDA warning involving defibrillators:
While AEDs improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, data on their effectiveness in hospitalized patients are limited, according to a Nov. 15, 2010 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Read more about it:
