The automated external defibrillator: clinical benefits and legal liability.

@article{England2006TheAE,
  title={The automated external defibrillator: clinical benefits and legal liability.},
  author={Hannah England and Paul S. Weinberg and Nathan Anthony Mark Estes},
  journal={JAMA},
  year={2006},
  volume={295 6},
  pages={
          687-90
        }
}
SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST IS THE MOST COMMON CAUSE of death in the United States, accounting for an estimated 350 000 deaths annually, and it is a leading cause of disability and health care costs. Lifethreatening cardiac arrhythmias such as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation usually cause sudden cardiac arrest. Early defibrillation of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation is necessary to resuscitate individuals with cardiac arrest, and survival depends directly on… 
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