Heartstart Defibrillator

During emergencies, it’s crucial that your AED is easily reachable, operational, and prepared. We prioritize this responsibility greatly.

Trusted technology that can turn anyone into a lifesaver.

Having an AED comes with the responsibility to ensure that it’s always ready.

In an emergency, your AED needs to be accessible, fully functioning, and ready. That’s a responsibility we take very seriously.

It’s why we supply the latest Philips HeartStart defibrillators.

Reliability

Choose an AED from a reliable manufacturer of trusted technology.

Safety

Your AED must have the necessary safeguards to avoid causing harm to the patient, even when it’s used by an untrained person.

Speed

Select an AED that’s accessible and delivers rapid defibrillation in the case of emergencies.

Ease-of-Use

Can your chosen AED be used with confidence by people with no training? Does it come with clear, simple instructions?

Guides you through a cardiac emergency.

Philips AEDs are designed with Life Guidance, a simple step-by-step process designed to help you act confidently and decisively. Life Guidance acts as your personal coach to guide you through a cardiac emergency, including detailed CPR coaching. If needed, the prompts will automatically be repeated or rephrased, and may include additional instructions to help you understand.

SMART Analysis: Precision Therapy for All

SMART analysis automatically assesses the victim’s heart rhythm. Whether the victim is a man, woman, or child, it delivers the right amount of therapy when needed. Even if you press the shock button, it will only deliver therapy if the rhythm is determined to be shockable.

Reduces the critical time from CPR to shock.

Studies show that minimising time to shock after CPR may improve survival.⁶⁻¹⁰ With patented Quick Shock, HeartStart is among the fastest in its class at delivering shock treatment after CPR, typically in just eight seconds

Optimizing AED Shock Strength

A high current with low energy delivers the right shock every time. The two most common ways to talk about AED shock strength are by current (measured in amps) and energy (measured in joules). It is a common assumption that energy is the most important measurement but that is incorrect. You defibrillate a heart by driving current through it.

HeartStart AEDs are designed to deliver high current in their low-energy shocks to maximise effectiveness from the very first shock dose.

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Available Options

Both the HeartStart HS1 and FRx are made for people who have never used a public defibrillator before.

Heartstart HS1

Ready in moments and easy for anyone to use

Heartstart FRX

Features life guidance to direct users step by step.

Sudden Cardiac Arrest can happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere...will you be ready?

Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a leading cause of death. Survival depends on having quick access to an AED and the reliable operation of the device.
Like any piece of medical equipment AEDs can experience unexpected failures. To help save a life, AEDs need to be ready and accessible at all times. Being prepared for a Sudden Cardiac Arrest is not only about the acquisition and installation of an AED – you also need to know that it will work as designed first time, every time.

To ensure AED readiness, continuous monitoring and maintenance are key.

References

1. Best Practice British Medical Journal, Epidemiology of cardiac arrest http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/283/basics/epidemiology.html; 2. Perkins GD, Cooke MW.

Variability in cardiac arrest survival: the NHS Ambulance Service Quality Indicators, Emerg Med J 2012;29:3-5 doi:10.1136/emermed-2011-200758; 3. Nolan JP, Soar J, Zideman DA, Biarent D, Bossaert LL, Deakin C, Koster RW, Wyllie J, Böttiger B. European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2010 Section 1. Executive summary. Resuscitation 2010;81:1219- 76. 4. Yu T, et al. Adverse Outcomes of Interrupted Precordial Compression During Automated Defibrillation. Circulation 2002;106:368-372. 5. Eftesol T, Sunde K, Steen PA. Effects of Interrupting Precordial Compressions in the Calculated Probability of Defibrillation Success During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. Circulation 2002;105:2270-2273. 6. Snyder DE and Morgan C. Wide Variations in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Intervals Among Commercially Available Automated External Defibrillators May Affect Survival Despite High Defibrillation Efficacy. Critical Care Medicine 2004;32 7.Supplement:S421-S424.9. American Heart Association Guidelines 2010. Circulation 2010;122:S706-S719. 8. Edelson D, et al. Effects of compression depth and pre-shock pauses predict defibrillation failure during cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2006;71:137-145.11.

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