Open-source automated external defibrillator

Publishing date: 2017-10-01

Published on: HardwareX

summary: The Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is a medical device that analyzes a patient’s electrocardiogram in order to establish whether he/she is suffering from the fatal condition of Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), and subsequently allows the release of a therapeutic dose of electrical energy (i.e. defibrillation). Computer simulations and preliminary tests show that the OAED can release a 200 J biphasic defibrillation in about 12 s and detects SCA with sensitivity higher than 90% and specificity of about 99%.

authors: Jacopo Ferretti, Licia Di Pietro, Carmelo De Maria

link to paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067217300354

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