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Defibrillators are medical devices, used when someone suffers a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). These can happen to anyone, at any time and often without warning. A sudden cardiac arrest occurs when there is an electrical fault with the heart and is often confused with a heart attack. The two vary in that a heart attack is caused when blood flow to the heart is blocked. This results in the person feeling light headed or dizzy, pain spreading across the chest to arms and shortness of breath to …

Defibrillators are used to when someone is suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. They deliver a shock to the heart if needed in order to encourage it to start beating again on it’s own, at it’s natural pace. Sudden cardiac arrests can happen to anyone at anytime, gender, age or ethnicity doesn’t play a role in who will have a sudden cardiac arrest.Sudden cardiac arrests are caused by electrical faults with the heart, this causes the heart to stop beating by which point the patient will have fallen …

An automatic external defibrillator, also known as an AED is used to shock a patient’s heart who has gone into sudden cardiac arrest. A shock, if needed, is delivered in order to encourage the heart to start beating again at it’s natural pace. A sudden cardiac is caused by an electrical fault with the heart which interferes with how it beats which subsequently stops blood being pumped around the body. A person will fall unconscious and need medical assistance urgently.Thankfully, AEDs have been …

An AED cabinet, also known as an automatic external defibrillator cabinet is used to store defibrillators. Defibrillators are used to save a patient when they are suffering a sudden cardiac arrest. They scan the heart to determine whether a shock is needed and if so, will deliver one. This shock stops the heart from beating so that it can resume again at it’s normal pace naturally.The success rate of a defibrillator can be as high as 90% if used within the first minute of someone falling ill. Wi …

Defibrillators work by shocking the heart so that it can resume beating at it’s normal pace when someone has fallen ill. There are a number of conditions that can cause the heart to beat to slowly, too fast or irregularly and that subsequently require a defibrillator.How do defibrillators work?Defibrillators work by scanning the heart to determine whether a shock needs to be delivered or not. Once electrode pads are placed on the chest, the defibrillator begins the scanning process and if you ar …