Activeforever OnSite Defibrillator User Manual

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Philips HeartStart OnSite Defibrillator

Product information

Updated for Guidelines 2005

Sudden cardiac
anyone, anytime,

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•The current U.S. survival rate for SCA is less than 5%.

•The likelihood of successful resuscitation decreases by

about 10% with every minute that passes.

•An additional 40,000 lives could be saved each year in

the U.S. alone with widespread access to defibrillators.

arrest can happen to
anywhere.

Power to save a life

Each year sudden cardiac arrest (SCA)

strikes approximately 340,000 people in the

U.S. alone, and hundreds of thousands more

worldwide.The majority of these people

have no warning, since they show no prior

symptoms. And sadly, fewer than 5% survive,

often because emergency medical services

cannot reach them in time.

SCA most often occurs when the electrical

system of the heart becomes chaotic,

causing it to stop beating effectively. Lacking

proper blood flow, the person becomes

unresponsive, stops breathing, and will die

unless promptly treated. CPR is important,

but it alone cannot restore a normal heart

rhythm. A “shock” from a defibrillator is the

most effective way to restore the heart’s

normal pumping rhythm. The victim’s best

chance of survival is to receive that shock

within 5 minutes of collapse. Just as seat belts

or airbags do not save every life in a traffic

accident, a defibrillator will not save every

person who suffers a sudden cardiac arrest.

Yet many lives could be saved if more people

could be reached more quickly.

Philips HeartStart Defibrillators enable

virtually anyone to treat the most common

cause of SCA by delivering a shock quickly

and effectively, wherever it happens – at

work, at play, in the air – providing the power

to save a life.

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