Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: jocelyn.srigley@cw.bc.ca.
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: audra.iness@bcm.edu.
Wearable cardioverter-defibrillators (WCD) have emerged as a valuable tool in the management of patients at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias. These devices offer a non-invasive and temporary solu...
From November 2022 to May 2024, we conducted an outpatient follow-up of 41 patients receiving WCD. Regular check-ups, remote monitoring and comprehensive echocardiography were performed to optimise a ...
The average age of the patients was 59.2.4±16.5 years, with 78% being male. Among the cohort, 54% had hypertension, 41% were smokers and 66% had dyslipidaemia, while 27% were diabetic. WCD was assigne...
The use of WCD for patients at high risk of arrhythmias allowed to optimise therapy and limit the indications for ICD. Inappropriate implantation of ICD was avoided in 69% of patients who received WCD...
Despite advances in defibrillation technology, shock-refractory ventricular fibrillation remains common during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Double sequential external defibrillation (DSED; rapid se...
We conducted a cluster-randomized trial with crossover among six Canadian paramedic services to evaluate DSED and VC defibrillation as compared with standard defibrillation in adult patients with refr...
A total of 405 patients were enrolled before the data and safety monitoring board stopped the trial because of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. A total of 136 patients (33.6%) were assigned to r...
Among patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation, survival to hospital discharge occurred more frequently among those who received DSED or VC defibrillation than among those who received standa...
Little is known about automated external defibrillator (AED) functionality in real-life settings. We aimed to assess the functionality of all registered AEDs in a geographically selected area and calc...
In this cross-sectional study we inspected all registered and available AEDs on the island of Bornholm in Denmark. We collected information on battery status (determined by AED self-test) and electrod...
Of 211 registered AEDs, 181 (81.9%) were publicly accessible and functional. The remaining 40 (18.1%) were not functional, primarily due to expired electrodes (42.5%, n = 17), obstacles to AED retriev...
Almost one-fifth of all registered and publicly available AEDs were not functional, primarily due to expired electrodes, failed self-tests or obstacles to retrieving AEDs. One in twenty historical OHC...
The purpose of this article is to review the current status of public access defibrillation and the various utility modalities of early defibrillation....
Defibrillation with on-site automated external defibrillators (AEDs) has been the conventional approach for public access defibrillation. This strategy is highly effective in cardiac arrests occurring...
Recent advances in the use of public access defibrillation show great potential for optimizing early defibrillation. With new technological solutions, AEDs can be transported to the cardiac arrest loc...
In a sudden cardiac arrest, starting CPR and applying an AED immediately are the two highest resuscitation priorities. Many existing mobile applications have been developed to assist users in locating...
The proposed system collects Wi-Fi information from the existing devices and the path's magnetic information using a smartphone to guide the user from a starting point to an AED. The information colle...
The four techniques used in the proposed system Turn detection, Magnetic data pattern matching, Closest Wi-Fi location and Wi-Fi fingerprinting can individually achieve the accuracy of 80% with the er...
This research proposes a novel approach that requires no special hardware, large scale data or significant initial work to provide indoor navigation. The proposed system AEDNav can achieve an accuracy...
Transthoracic impedance is one of the key factors affecting the success of defibrillation. Impedance compensation technique is used to adjust defibrillation parameters according to the transthoracic i...
Automated external defibrillators are a very effective treatment to convert ventricular fibrillation (VF) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The purpose of this paper is to review recent publications ...
Much of the recent research focus on ways to utilize publicly available AEDs included in different national/regional registers. More and more research present positive associations between engaging vo...
The use of public AEDs in OHCA are still low. Systems focusing on engaging volunteers in the cardiac arrest response have shown to be associated with higher AED usage. Dispatching drones equipped with...
Public access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) plays a key role in increasing survival outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Based on the concept of maximizing "rescue ...
We classified the effective coverage of an AED in hot, warm, and cold zones. The AEDs were categorized, according to their accessibility, as fixed, summonable, or patrolling types. The overall rescue ...
To maximize the overall rescue benefit of the AEDs, the AEDs should avoid overlapping with each other's coverage as much as possible. Specific rules for optimally deploying one, two, or multiple AEDs,...
A methodology for assessing the rescue benefit of deployed AEDs was proposed, and deployment strategies for maximizing the rescue benefit of AEDs along a long, narrow, corridor-like, finite space were...
The poor availability of automatic external defibrillators (AED) and the modest knowledge of lay persons in handling these devices has led to an insufficient spread of public access defibrillation in ...
This article examines whether the automated deployment of AED drones to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest can help to remedy this situation....
Narrative literature review, evaluation of statistics, analysis of relevant media reports, and discussion of key research....
The present investigations are mainly located in the experimental field and demonstrate the feasibility and safety of drone use, as well as shorter times to first defibrillation, which is confirmed by...
The use of AED drones could probably contribute to improving public access defibrillation in Germany. This applies to both rural and urban regions. The technological requirements are met but flight re...
The wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) is an important tool in mitigating sudden cardiac death (SCD). The WCD provides patient alarms for detected arrhythmias or electrical noise/artifact. Some...
A retrospective review of a large commercial database of prescribed WCD. Patients prescribed the WCD during the years 2017 (discrimination algorithm, DA group) or during 2019 (advanced arrhythmia disc...
The AArD algorithm was associated with a significant decrease in frequency of alarms over the course of WCD use; 54% of patients in the AARD versus 27% of DA had 0 alarms (P < .001). In the entire coh...
A novel artificial intelligence algorithm reduces alarms without delaying appropriate therapy for VT/VF. These changes may improve compliance and quality of life in patients with a WCD....
