Automatic External Defibrillators

For First Aid, First Responders and performing basic life support; be sure to keep an automated external defibrillator or AED on hand.

This portable electronic device automatically diagnoses the potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias of ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia in a patient, and is able to treat them through defibrillation, the application of electrical therapy which stops the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to reestablish an effective rhythm.