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  • Title: Semi-automatic external defibrillation.
    Author: Mols P, Clevenbergh P, Henry B, Decroly M, Langen C, Beaucarne E, Bruyninx J, Robert P, Labruyère JP, Flamand JP.
    Journal: Eur J Emerg Med; 1994 Dec; 1(4):210-3. PubMed ID: 9422170.
    Abstract:
    Malignant arrhythmia, which is responsible for most of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, is ventricular fibrillation (VF). The best treatment of VF is a controlled electric shock on the chest administered in a short delay. The emergency medical technicians (EMTs) qualified to carry out this treatment in Belgium and in districts often succeed in arriving on the spot 8 minutes earlier than the people of the Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation (SMUR). The delegation of defibrillation to ambulance crew members however implies a specific teaching, training and a medical control. The Brussels experience shows that semi-automatic external defibrillation by EMT-Ds (SAED) is feasible when criteria for applying SAED in the pre-hospital phase are applicable.
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