If a loved one or even a stranger falls in front of you, what can you do for them on the spot besides call the emergency services?

If someone asks you where the defibrillator nearest your home or office is, can you immediately tell them where it is?

If you had an automated external defibrillator in front of you, would you be able to use it to treat the patient properly?

You can find it in many public places

As on-site emergency equipment, AED has been widely placed in crowded public places such as subways, schools and shopping malls in recent years.

During defibrillation, the AED’s voice prompt and animation operation prompt make the operation easier and the rescuer only need to follow the prompt.

How does an AED work?

An AED is used when the victim’s pulse stops. However, it cannot shock a person who has no heart rate and whose electrocardiogram is straight and horizontal.

In short, the use of a defibrillator itself does not restore the patient’s heartbeat, but delivers an electric shock to stop the fatal arrhythmias, such as ventricular fibrillation and flutter.

Then the high pacemaker of the heart is excited to regain control of the heart beat and get the heart beating again. Patients with underlying cardiac conditions who do not resume their heartbeat after defibrillation need immediate CPR.

The AED is designed for two types of patients:

1. Ventricular fibrillation (or flutter)

2. Pulseless ventricular tachycardia

In tachycardia, the heart is beating too fast to effectively supply enough blood. Usually, tachycardia turns into ventricular fibrillation, where the electrical activity of the heart is in a state of severe confusion.

Patients with these two arrhythmias have no response, no breathing, and no pulse. Although the myocardium has a certain amount of movement, it cannot effectively send blood to the whole body, so it must be corrected by electric shock.

It is important to note that, unlike medical defibrillators, which are designed for medical personnel. In addition to the above two conditions, AED cannot diagnose and provide treatment for various arrhythmia features, and it does not provide in vitro heart rate regulation for patients with bradycardia.

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