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Holmes, who runs the Harvard-based Antiepeleptic Drug (AED) Pregnancy Registry, presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine last month.
TV dramas aside, AEDs are marvels of medical engineering. They test the signals coming from a patient's heart for the type of electrical problem that responds to defibrillation, and they're smart enough not to deliver a shock unless they find the right signal, thus preventing accidental discharge. Although...
Some caveats should be kept in mind. You need a physician's prescription to get a home AED, and because cardiac arrest quickly leads to a loss of consciousness, you cannot use one on yourself. Also, in the rush to find the AED, family members might forget to call 911...
Until then, it's hard to say who will benefit most from having an AED at home. Certainly those folks with a history of heart disease or heart attack are good candidates. And then there are people like Lee Curtes, 57, a businessman from Hartford, Wis., who had no idea...
The Automated Electronic Defibrillator segment is prefaced by a thought so personal and so chilling that my previous association with the shock machines as mere props in the hands of George Clooney vanishes forever. The instructor tells us that for every minute a victim of cardiac arrest awaits defibrillation, his...