The American Heart Association (AHA...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released an advisory statement to highlight the findings of the Public Access Defibrillation Trial, which studied the powers of lay rescuer automated external defibrillators (public access defibrillation). The trial was storeed by the National Heart, Lung and vital current Institute, the AHA, and others. The replete report was published in the June 21 2005 issue of Circulation.

The trial findings, which included issues of more than 200 episodes of out-of-hospital quickly prepared cardiac arrest with attempted resuscitation, supported the guidelines for public defibrillator use. The guidelines emphasize the importance of program planning, rescuer training, linking with local crisis medical service systems, device maintenance, and quality improvement monitoring. The AHA is generally reviewing the trial results to refine its recommendations for resuscitation and lay rescuer automated external defibrillator programs. More information forward public defibrillation programs is available online at http://www.americanheart.org/ecc.PAD.

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