Public Use of Automated External Defibrillators
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- 17 October 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 347 (16), 1242-1247
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa020932
Abstract
Automated external defibrillators save lives when they are used by designated personnel in certain public settings. We performed a two-year prospective study at three Chicago airports to assess whether random bystanders witnessing out-of-hospital cardiac arrests would retrieve and successfully use automated external defibrillators.Keywords
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