AED stands for automated external defibrillator.
AED is mainly for patients who have lost their response, lost their breath, or only have a dying gasp. When cardiac arrest occurs, the patient will experience loss of consciousness, cardiac arrest, and absence of carotid and cerebral arterial pulsations, etc. If defibrillation is not carried out at this time, the patient will suffer from severe ischemia of the myocardium, and the lack of oxygen will lead to necrosis of the brain cells, resulting in death.
The treatment of sudden cardiac death AED is based on extracorporeal electric defibrillation, along with cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The first step is to turn on the power supply of the AED, paste the electrode sheet, analyze the heart rate of the patient, leave the patient for charging, and then discharge to implement the electric shock. It is recommended that patients should avoid excessive moisture in the patient's chest during use, and chest hair needs to be removed when there is more chest hair.
Effective first aid:
AED portable, easy to operate, a little training can be skilled in the use of first aid equipment designed for on-site first aid, in a sense, the AED is not only a kind of first aid equipment, but also a kind of first aid is a new concept, a kind of first aid by the scene of the witnesses to the earliest concept of effective first aid. It is different from the traditional defibrillator, which can be analyzed by the built-in computer and determine whether the patient needs to be defibrillated.
Defibrillation process, the AED's voice prompts and screen display makes the operation more simple and easy. AEDs can be operated by most people with only a few hours of training. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), learning to use an AED is easier than learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
While AEDs are easy to use, the ones currently available in China do not allow untrained laypeople to use them.
China's first marathon "sudden death" AED rescue success:
March 15, 2015, the Wuxi International Marathon, a shocking scene: half-marathon 20.3 kilometers, a player suddenly collapsed, first aid team members arrived at the scene to confirm that the person did not respond No breathing, and then immediately launched rescue, after CPR, AED defibrillation and other emergency means of rescue, the player breathing recovery, consciousness recovery, the danger is solved.