More configuration of AED equipment can better protect heart patients. Media reports, a few days ago, a representative expressed the hope that the country can be like the configuration of fire extinguishers, a large area of the installation of AED equipment, and to improve the first aid knowledge of the personnel of the public **** place. Because heart disease patients in the outdoors will occasionally appear heart attack symptoms, and these patients of the golden rescue time in four minutes or so, four minutes ambulance is certainly too late, if there is now an AED, it can be directly to its electric shock resuscitation, can greatly enhance the survival rate of patients. For ordinary people, this may only be a rare thing, but for the person himself, if the AED treatment can be carried out in a timely manner, it can save their lives, which is the most important.
And just last year, on the Beijing subway, a man passed away after fainting due to cardiac arrest, and although a passerby helped with CPR, the man was ultimately unable to be resuscitated due to the lack of AED equipment. The incident then triggered widespread public concern, some netizens criticized that the Beijing subway, as a place with such a dense daily flow of people, was not equipped with AED equipment, which was a dereliction of duty on the part of the subway, if there was an AED device on the subway at that time, it is likely that the man could have been saved. Subsequently, the Beijing subway also began a large-scale installation of AED program.
From the point of view of public data, the largest number of AEDs installed in China is in Shenzhen, with a total of more than 3,500 units, and according to the Shenzhen Municipal Government's plan, within this year, there will be thousands of AEDs in public **** places, and it is expected that by the end of the year the amount of AEDs in Shenzhen will be more than 5,000 units.
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The AED, or automated external defibrillator, was known as pre-hospital cardiac arrest? AEDs are used to save lives in pre-hospital cardiac arrests.
At present, there are only about 20,000 automated external defibrillators nationwide, an average of just over 1 per 100,000 people, according to Guangzhou Daily. In Shanghai, the number of units per 100,000 people was 4.5 in 2017; in Shenzhen, the number of units per 100,000 people in 2019 was 17.5.
Most cities across the country are still in their infancy. Compared with developed countries, China is a late starter in setting up automated external defibrillators in public *** places, with problems such as insufficient number, low awareness rate and not many people who can use them. Data show that there are about 540,000 cardiac arrests in China each year, with a success rate of less than 3% in major cities and even lower in other regions.
The use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) is so far recognized as an effective pre-hospital method of stopping sudden cardiac death.? According to the National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, more than 80% of sudden cardiac death cases occur outside of a medical facility, Zhu Leiyu said. Effective resuscitation must take place within the first four minutes of a patient's onset of illness, once it exceeds the ? Golden 4 minutes? , the mortality rate is extremely high, even if the eventual rescue, but also the brain cells will cause irreversible damage.