Of 95 patients receiving transthoracic shocks for atrial flutter in the emergency department, about half were treated with a defibrillator that delivered monophasic-waveform shocks and the rest were ...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOH-CA) is the main cause of cardiac death, and it affects approximately 1000 Americans every day. When cardiac arrest occurs, the difference between life and death ...
The 1990's heralded a new era of transthoracic defibrillation in which the rules of conventional practice no longer apply. Seeking waveform designs more efficient than the traditional monophasic ...