title: The introduction of public access defibrillation to a university community: the University of Virginia public access defibrillation program.
abstract: The use of the automatic external defibrillator (AED) can significantly reduce the time to defibrillation in patients with sudden cardiac death. This early defibrillation via the AED can also improve patient outcome, including survival and neurologic status among survivors. We undertook the addition of a public access defibrillation program at a large mid-Atlantic university. In our design of the system, we found little useful information to guide us in the development and construction our system. This article is a review of the process of public access defibrillation AED system development such that other medical and academic leaders at similar institutions can more easily develop such systems.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Whitney-Cashio
authors: Melissa
authors: M
authors: Sartin
authors: William J
authors: WJ
authors: Brady
authors: Kelly
authors: K
authors: Williamson
authors: Kostas
authors: K
authors: Alibertis
authors: Gilbert
authors: G
authors: Somers
authors: Robert E
authors: RE
authors: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D047548:Defibrillators / Q000600:supply & distribution; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000628:therapy; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D014495:Universities; D014768:Virginia