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Effective use of defibrillators in the Emergency Centre
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-73).
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Status of the implementation of automated external defibrillators in South Korean health/fitness facilities
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of automated external defibrillator (AED) implementation in South Korean health/fitness facilities; for facilities with AEDs, to investigate risk management practices associated with AED implementation; and for facilities without AEDs, to …
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Risk stratification in patients with heart failure and in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
… heart failure such as Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD) are expensive and do not abolish the risk of sudden death completely. Hence it is necessary to improve risk stratification methods in patients with heart failure and identify factors predicting mortality in those patients with …
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Incidence and Clinical Predictors of Risk Factors for Inappropriate Shock in Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
… worldwide. Although Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (ICD) are highly effective in diagnosing and treating life threatening arrhythmias, inappropriate shock therapy (IST) occurs in approximately 5-20% of ICD recipients. IST results in pain, anxiety, induction of ventricular arrhythmias, …
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Human Factors in Drone Delivery of Automatic External Defibrillators for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Older Adult Considerations
Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) delivered by drone have the potential to improve survival rates of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA) due to earlier access to defibrillation. There is a lack of user-centred, and older adult-focused research in this area. The present study evaluated the …
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Performance of re-used pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators compared with new devices at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
… - used pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in Africa. We sought to compare the risk of infection and the rate of malfunction of re - used pacemakers and ICDs with new devices at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Methods: This was a retrospective case …
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Adaptive defibrillator design
Defibrillators are medical equipments which are widely used to resume the normal pacemaking activities of the heart in patients with myocardivim abnormalities. Electrical defibrillation is usually achieved by passing an electrical current pulse transthoracically through the heart of the patient. …
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An automated web-based searchable archive for implantable cardioverter defibrillator data
… patient data from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) produced by Medtronic in particular. The archive will provide a central and stable repository for researchers looking for data originally stored in the ICDs. The Web interface to the system provides an easy means of searching …
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Encryption on the air : non-Invasive security for implantable medical devices
… devices (IMDs) including pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators and nerve stimulators feature wireless connectivity that enables remote monitoring and post-implantation adjustment. However, recent work has demonstrated that flawed security tempers these medical benefits. In particular, an …
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ST Monitoring on the Programmer for Implantable Cardioverter Devices
… to St. Jude Medical intracardiac cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) to leverage the ECG technology for identifying cardiovascular disease. This algorithm monitors the intracardiac electrogram to detect and report patterns which could be related to ischemic events. This feature is expected to …
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St. Jude Medical: ST Monitoring
… like those used with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). The St. Jude Medical algorithm called ST Monitoring was designed to continuously monitor the ST-Segments and detect when there has been a significant shift. This thesis describes the implementation of the St. Jude Medical ST …
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Hearts and minds : how do people experience and psychologically recover from traumatic cardiac treatment-related events?
… transplantation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). It was hoped that such an endeavour would yield novel insights into these treatments that might facilitate the development of pertinent theory and psychotherapeutic approaches designed to alleviate the psychological distress …
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Shape and Function Analysis in Large Cardiac MRI Datasets
… with myocardial infarct were provided by the Defibrillators To Reduce Risk By Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation (DETERMINE) clinical trial, both available through the Cardiac Atlas Project. The main challenges of this thesis were to build standardised static and dynamic atlases of such …
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A novel means of cardiac catheter guidance for ablation therapy of ventricular tachycardia
… tachycardia (VT). Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) have been found to be successful in terminating VT but do not prevent the initiation of the arrhythmia. Alternatively, the radiofrequency (RF) ablation procedure has been recently used as a potentially curative therapy by …
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Women’s experiences of living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are used to treat lethal arrhythmias in patients identified as at risk of sudden cardiac death and can form an additional part of a cardiac resynchronisation therapy device (CRT) which is used for the treatment of heart failure. These cardiac devices …
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Can the measurement of transventricular intracardiac impedance reliably differentiate haemodynamically stable from unstable arrhythmias?
Introduction: Implantable defibrillators (ICD's) are currently unable to assess the haemodynamic stability of arrhythmias and can occasionally deliver intracardiac shocks when patients are conscious. We investigated the use of trans-ventricular impedance (across the left ventricle {LV}) as a …
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Preparing for out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A GIS scenario-modeling approach
… the current placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in relationship to neighborhoods in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, and to determine the optimal locations for additional AEDs in the city. Using GIS to mathematically locate additional healthcare facilities for the placement of …
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Emergency Medical Services Response Optimization
… from using drones to deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to OHCAs. We demonstrate, using data from 50,000 historical OHCAs covering 26,000 square kilometers around Toronto, that a drone network has the potential to significantly reduce AED delivery time. Chapter 4 develops a …
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