Word: cardiac
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Previous experiments had proven that an unrestrained victim of cardiac arrest could be intubated for an ideal airway to the lungs, and that CPR performed for an unrestrained victim and rescuer could be a feasible procedure...
...cared for him was Naela Haeik, who was born in an Arab village in Israel's Galilee region. She recalls that after surgeons operated on Averbach's spine, she spent four hours settling him into his bed. She hooked the 37-year-old father of four onto a cardiac monitor, a mechanical ventilator and an intravenous drip. It was hard, physical work for her and another nurse, lifting the helpless body of the tall, muscular Averbach, who works as a private weapons instructor. Then she introduced herself. With a name that any Israeli would recognize as Arab, Haeik says this...
When New York State last year required public schools to have AEDs, Cardiac dedicated four employees to winning the district-by-district contracts and walked away with at least a third of them. "If you were selling this device to a hospital, they would know the Medtronic name, and that would influence the buying decision," says Keay Nakae, a medical-device analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles. But in schools and other venues, "you can compete on features. Cardiac Science matches up pretty well...
Others aren't so bullish. Robert Dickinson, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a consulting firm based in San Jose, Calif., says that without the corporate heft to cut deals with distributors like drugstore chain CVS (which sells AEDs made by Philips), Cardiac won't ever graduate from being a "mid-tier player...
...young company is still losing money, though it predicts it will break into an operating profit this quarter and a net profit by the end of the year. Several sobering statistics are on its side: some 250,000 Americans will die this year from sudden cardiac arrest. And one study found that using an AED and CPR within three minutes of collapse raised survival rates to 74%. As everyone from school and office administrators to hotel managers and private homeowners looks to buy AEDs, Cardiac Science expects healthy sales for years to come...