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HeartStart is the first home defibrillator available over the counter. It is specfically designed for use in the home by virtually anyone to help save a life when sudden cardiac arrest occurs.

Just when things are going well, you don't want them to be interrupted. But that's exactly what happens with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). It usually happens without warning and the majority of people have no previously recognized symptoms of heart disease. And it most often happens at home. When SCA strikes, the electrical system of the heart short circuits, causing the heart to quiver rather than pump in a normal rhythm. It typically results in the abnormal rhythm called ventricular fibrillation (VF). For the best chance of survival, a defibrillator should be applied within 5 minutes. Yet, less than 1 in 20 people survive largely because a defibrillator does not arrive in time.

That's why we created the HeartStart Home Defibrillator. This award-winning safety equipment has been designed so that virtually anyone can use it to help save the life of a person who suffers a sudden cardiac arrest.

Clear, calm voice instructions talk you through each step. HeartStart senses and adapts the voice instructions based on your actions. Using sophisticated technology, HeartStart quickly decides whether a shock is necessary. It is designed to only deliver a shock if needed. It will even coach you through the steps of CPR.

Philips is the market leader in innovative defibrillation technology.1 We offer award-winning resuscitation products, helping rescuers treat sudden cardiac arrest quickly and effectively wherever it occurs.

Philips HeartStart Defibrillators have been recognized with the following awards:

* Today's Facility Manager Magazine, "First Place Reader's Choice Award", 2004
* Fortune Magazine, "Best Products of the Year", 2004
* Forbes.com, "Ten Gadgets That Will Improve Your Life", 2004
* Popular Science, “Best of What’s New” award, 2003
* USA Weekend "Best Innovations of 2003"
* Frost & Sullivan, Technology Leadership Award, 2003
* Frost & Sullivan, New Care Setting of the Year Award, 2003
* Industrial Design Excellence Award (Gold), 2003 * Medical Design Excellence Award 2003
* BusinessWeek/USA Today, “Best Product of 2002”
* Readers Choice Award, Occupational Safety & Health, 1998
* Business Week Gold and Silver awards, 1997
* Popular Science “Best of What’s New” issue called the Heartstream defibrillator "one of the year's 100 greatest achievements in science and technology", December 1997
* German Red Dot Award for High Design, 1997
* Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), 1997
* Finalist, Computerworld Smithsonian Awards, 1996
* In Peter S. Cohan’s book, "The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success", Heartstream was cited as one of America's most innovative technology leaders.2

Defination of defibrillator from the Wikipedia
A defibrillator is a medical device used in the defibrillation of the heart. It consists of a central unit and a set of two electrodes. The central unit provides a source of power and control. The two electrodes are placed directly on or in the patient. The device is designed to deliver an electric shock to the patient, in an effort to stop pulseless ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia. Ventricular fibrillation is a situation of electrical chaos in the heart's conduction system, in essence distorting the coordinated contraction of cardiac muscular tissue. This leads to a situation where the heart produces minimal or no forward blood flow, causing circulatory arrest and death within minutes from hypoxic brain damage. The defibrillation current depolarizes the entire electrical system of the heart causing a complete ceasure of electrical activity. This, in turn, gives the opportunity of impulses from the normal conduction pathways to regain control of the muscular tissue of the heart.

An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a self-contained defibrillator device designed for portability and ease of use. AEDs are generally shaped like a briefcase, so that they may be carried easily by a handle. An AED contains a battery, a control computer, and electrodes. Upon placing the electrodes on the patient, the control computer in an advanced system will assess the patient, determining the type of rhythm or arrhythmia present. It will then set appropriate power levels and signal that a shock is needed. If the patient does not require defibrillation, units will not allow a shock to be administered. A button must still be depressed manually to trigger the shock, as the operator beforehand must be certain that no-one is touching the patient at that time. Often, AEDs will have speakers which give audible commands when the AED is opened.

Who should own a defibrillator? ... Anyone who wants to be prepared.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death in the U.S. The majority of victims have no previously recognized symptoms of heart disease - SCA typically strikes without warning.

A cardiac arrest, or circulatory arrest, is the abrupt stop of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively during systole. The resulting lack of blood supply results in cell death from oxygen starvation. Cerebral hypoxia, or lack of oxygen supply to the brain, causes victims to lose consciousness and to stop breathing, which in turn causes the heart to stop. Brain damage is likely to occur after 3-5 minutes, except in cases of hypothermia. To improve survival and neurological recovery immediate response is paramount.

Cardiac arrest is a medical emergency that, in certain groups of patients, is potentially reversible if treated early enough. When unexpected cardiac arrest leads to death this is called sudden cardiac death (SCD). The primary first-aid treatment for cardiac arrest is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (commonly known as CPR) to provide circulatory support until availability of medical treatment.

A defibrillator will not save every SCA victim, but more lives could be saved if victims were reached more quickly.

American Red Cross The vision of the American Red Cross is that at least one person in every household be trained in life-saving first aid, CPR, and defibrillator use, and that every American be within 4 minutes of a defibrillator

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