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In March 2026 the FDA granted LifeVac De Novo classification as a Class II medical device ā the first anti-choking...
Defibrillation in an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest typically happens around minute eleven after the 911 call. Survival odds fall roughly ten...
One of the lifeguards had to ask it out loud, in the middle of the emergency: "What do you mean,...
On August 18, 2026, KSAT 12 in San Antonio published an investigation into which local school districts actually have a...
If you are a school district, municipality, fire department, hospital or nonprofit, you probably cannot put an AED on a...
A new AED costs between roughly $1,400 and $3,700 in 2026. But that figure answers the wrong question, because an...
Buying the AED is the easy part. Mounting it is where programmes quietly fail inspection ā usually for one of...
These are the two AEDs most first-time buyers end up choosing between, and the decision usually gets made on the...
These two are the premium end of the workplace AED market, and they share something no other AED does: both...
The Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 is discontinued ā but that does not mean yours is useless, and it does not...
An AED does not announce its own retirement. It keeps passing self-tests and showing a green light right up until...
The LIFEPAK 1000 is a professional-grade AED built for EMS, fire and industrial use ā and it uses Physio-Control's QUIK-COMBO...
The LIFEPAK CR Plus and LIFEPAK Express handle consumables differently from most AEDs: the electrodes and the battery are supplied...
The Lifeline VIEW is the Defibtech with a full-colour video screen ā and despite the shared family name, none of...
The ZOLL AED Pro is the professional-responder sibling of the AED Plus, and its consumables follow a rule worth memorising:...
The Defibtech Lifeline is straightforward to maintain with one exception that catches people out: on some configurations there is a...
The Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 has a large installed base and is still going strong on a lot of walls...
The Cardiac Science Powerheart G5 gives you a choice most AEDs do not: two different adult electrode options, one of...
The ZOLL AED 3 is the successor to the AED Plus, and it changed both consumables. If you manage both...
The Philips HeartStart FRx is built for tougher environments than the OnSite ā and it handles both consumables and pediatric...
The HeartSine samaritan PAD is the simplest AED in the category to maintain, because it does something no other manufacturer...
A beeping or chirping AED is not broken ā it is reporting. Every modern AED runs automatic self-tests on a...
Short answer: expired AED pads might still work ā but you have no way of knowing whether yours will, and...
The LIFEPAK CR2 is one of the simplest AEDs to maintain, for one reason: it uses a single electrode set...
The Philips HeartStart OnSite is the best-selling AED in the world, and the one we field the most part-number questions...
The ZOLL AED Plus is one of the most widely deployed AEDs in the country ā and one of the...
The short version: you may not have to pay full price ā or anything ā for an AED. Foundations, corporations,...
First-pass success is the number that matters in emergency airway management. Every additional intubation attempt increases the risk of hypoxia,...
Most organizations build their emergency readiness the same way: an AED goes on the wall (often because a mandate, an...
An EMS bag has one job: get the right equipment to the patient, organized so that a responder working under...
For years, workplace emergency planning meant fire, cardiac arrest, and injury. The opioid crisis added a fourth category ā and...
A person with a severed artery can bleed to death in as little as three to five minutes. Average EMS...
Choking is one of the few emergencies where the person helping has minutes ā sometimes seconds ā to act, and...
Yesāyou can and should use an AED on a child or infant in cardiac arrest. Modern AEDs are designed to...
The short answer: Noāif you use an AED in good faith to help someone you reasonably believe is in cardiac...
The quick version: All 50 states and the District of Columbia have Good Samaritan laws that protect people who use...
There is no single best AED ā there is the best AED for your setting. Every model sold in the...
Short answer: a pre-owned AED can be just as reliable as a new one ā if it has been recertified...
Two states have just reshaped what it means to own and operate an automated external defibrillator (AED). New York has...
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