Generally speaking, 85%-90% patients with cardiac arrest have ventricular fibrillation in the early stage. The effective method to treat ventricular fibrillation is defibrillation, and the sooner the defibrillation, the better. With every delay of 1 min, the survival rate will drop by 7%- 10%, which is what we call sudden death.
It is also for this reason that in recent years, more and more public places have begun to be equipped with defibrillators, so can ordinary people use external defibrillators?
Automated external defibrillator, also known as automated external defibrillator, Automatic Defibrillator, Cardiac Defibrillator and Idiot Defibrillator, is a portable medical device, which can diagnose specific arrhythmia and give electric shock defibrillation. It can be used by non-professionals to rescue patients with cardiac arrest. Therefore, when someone has an accident, ordinary people can also use external defibrillators for rescue.
Second, what are the contraindications of external defibrillators?
The previous article has briefly introduced that external defibrillators can also be used by ordinary people for first aid, but in first aid, we should also pay a little attention to the contraindications of external defibrillators, which may be counterproductive for these people:
1, bradycardia patients are not suitable for defibrillation, so they can only choose drugs to relieve it, and using defibrillation rashly will delay the rescue time.
2. Because arrhythmia caused by digitalis is not suitable for defibrillation, similarly, reckless defibrillation will lead to more serious consequences.
3. Patients with hypokalemia cannot be defibrillated with defibrillators. If defibrillation is used, it is more likely to lead to supraventricular tachycardia and ventricular tachycardia in patients.