May 9, 2008

Weekly Defibrillator News 2008-05-09

Can Genetic Testing Save Lives?
CBS News, NY
A surgically implanted defibrillator can detect and immediately correct the abnormality. "That's the battery and the computer that reads every one of my …

FDA details defibrillator maker's violations
Seattle Post Intelligencer
When Bothell-based Physio-Control Inc. suspended shipments of its LIFEPAK defibrillators in January 2007, the company cited vague issues with its …

Clinical Briefs
U.S. Medicine, DC
The first study to explore the use of automated external defibrillator (AEDs) in the home has found that although the safe and easy-to-use devices are …

County Red Cross plans upcoming courses
Today's Sunbeam - NJ.com, NJ
This course prepares candidates to teach the following courses: Adult, Infant, and Child CPR, First Aid, and Automated External Defibrillator in the schools …

Can cooling off the body save the mind?
phillyBurbs.com, PA
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation keeps the heart pumping and a defibrillator shocks it back into a normal rhythm, but that is where the trouble occurs, …

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