HeartStart Instructions Of How To Use The HeartStart Defibrillator

[MegaTories]

It starts saying "it is safe to touch the patient" at 1:35 and the second cycle of chest compressions starts nearly a minute later at 2:34. A cycle of CPR should take about 20 seconds (30 compressions at 100-120 per minute is 15-18 seconds, add two 1-second breaths plus minimal switching time), so if you'd started immediately and avoided interruption you could have completed nearly three cycles by that time. In view of recommendations to minimise interruptions to CPR, that's quite a difference.

[MegaTories]

Agree with comments both ways about the longwinded instructions. To someone untrained in CPR they are far better than nothing. If you are trained, just get on with it and don't press the blue help button because it will take you through it frustratingly slowly relative to what you can do for yourself (the chest compression rate is correct but lots of additional pauses for explanation, as well as slow ventilation rate).

[mrskaggerik]

they do

[Peter96970]

Why is Philips still got no full-automatic device such as the Medtronic and the Cardiac Science?

[americanmed]

Wanna have a free AED (Automated External Defibrillator) go on Youtube and look for American Med Supply there giving away a Free AED. No purchase required, just register for the drawing.

[donttakemyguns]

I know that this model comes with smaller pads for children. Does anyone know how to switch the pads out?

[techigeekydiarmuid]

AEDs will speed up if they realise you've gotten ahead of them e.g. if you stick the pads on, it'll just start analysing... Longwinded instructions? Yes, but to someone without training, theyll be a lifesaver, literally. Also if youre lying on the floor I reckon you'd be quite thankful of the machine talking someone through CPR instead of saying Give up. The difference between a first aider giving these instructions to a bystander and a machine giving them? The machine will get it right!

[hibob841]

I know this is the only AED that you can buy without a prescription, and if that fact puts more AED's in public then that is a wonderful thing. But dear lord, those are some ridiculously verbose instructions! It talks to you for a full minute before it even analyzes? Your chances of survival go down roughly 10% with each minute that passes without defibrillation. And honestly, trying to talk someone through CPR is kind of silly. If they're untrained, they are not going to do much good with CPR.