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Every Physician Should Have
an Automated External Defibrillator
Much like a smoke detector or a fire alarm, an automated
external defibrillator is an emergency
device that should be in every doctor’s
office. While it may not be used as often in a podiatrist’s
office as a cardiologist’s office; it would
still be beneficial for all medical practitioners.
Almost 350,000 Americans die every year from cardiac
arrest. Without the use of defibrillation, only
two to five percent of cardiac arrest victims survive.
Those who received defibrillation within three to
five minutes of cardiac arrest survived fifty to
seventy percent of the time.
The cost of automated
external defibrillators (AED) used to be a huge
factor in why many doctor’s offices did not
have AED’s. However, the cost of AED’s
has lowered a lot in the past five years. The cost
of an AED is a small price to pay when compared
to the number of lives you can save by using it.
AED’s dramatically increase survival rates
from sudden cardiac arrest, and all patients deserve
to benefit from this technology. Physicians need
to consider more than just the type of patients
in their practice when deciding on an AED, but the
distance to the nearest hospital or the likely response
time for an ambulance as well.
Physicians need to consider the probability of a
sudden
cardiac arrest actually occurring in their office.
In public locations, an AED is generally considered
cost effective if the annual probability of a sudden
cardiac arrest at that location is at least ten
percent. Most health care settings, such as dialysis
centers and high-risk cardiac specialty practices,
have sudden cardiac arrest rates above and beyond
the ten percent range.
You never know when someone could go into sudden
cardiac arrest. For that reason, every physician
owes it to their patients to have an AED
in their office.
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