[Sudden death and semi-automatic defibrillation].
While cardiac arrest in hospital poses few immediate management problems, this is not the case outside hospital. For this reason semi-automatic defibrillators are easy to handle devices designed to deliver an early electric shock in the context of usage by non-specialist people following minimum training. These devices have shown a clear improvement in survival compared to the exclusive use of a manual defibrillator by highly trained emergency services, especially in confined areas such as casinos or aircraft, or where a significant number of potential patients are concentrated, such as airports. It is now important to be able to improve public access to defibrillation by various means currently being studied, and probably by relaxing the rules which allow the use of these devices.
Centre hospitalier Princesse Grâce, Monaco. nsaoudi@chpg.mc
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D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac; D047548:Defibrillators / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000295:instrumentation*