LIFEPAK Defibrillators. Full energy up to 360 joules for every patient who needs it
Solid clinical research shows that higher energy can improve shock success for cardiac arrest victims when low-energy shocks fail. That’s why all Physio-Control defibrillators deliver a full range of energy up to 360 joules – whether it’s an AED in the hands of a school nurse or a defibrillator/monitor on a hospital crash cart or EMS rescue rig.
Our approach is based on sound evidence-based medicine. Here’s what it tells us:
- Some patients are clearly more difficult to defibrillate1,2 than others—yet no one can spot them ahead of time. Clinical studies report biphasic shock success in different populations of patients ranging from below 65% to higher than 90%.
- Failed shocks carry a high cost, prolonging ventricular fibrillation (VF) and requiring additional interruptions in CPR to deliver additional shocks.
- Joule-for-joule there is no evidence showing a difference in effectiveness between different biphasic waveforms up to 200J.
Therefore...
Biphasic shocks escalating to 360J can improve shock success.2,3
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Although not everyone can be saved from sudden cardiac arrest, studies show that early defibrillation can dramatically improve survival rates.