home use defibrillator
Home Use of Automatic External Defibrillators to Treat Sudden Cardiac Arrest (HAT) This study has been completed. To compare home use of an automatic external defibrillator (AED) to the use of local emergency medical system in treating survivors of sudden cardiac arrest.
To solve this problem, Pantridge developed the first portable, battery-powered defibrillator in 1965. Portable was something of a misnomer since it used huge lead-acid car batteries and weighed about as much as a person (70kg or 154 lb)! Even so, it could be carried around in ambulances, which gave a few valuable extra minutes to save people.