Medtronic's LIFEPAK 15 defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted March 31st 2009 10:23AM
posted March 31st 2009 10:23AM
Sure, everybody loves a tough notebook -- but there are all sorts of gadgets that can benefit from the tough treatment. Adding to the list of electronics suitable for dropping, kicking, and spraying with water, Medtronic's LIFEPAK 15 -- which just received FDA approval, by the by -- is a portable heart monitor / defibrillator equipped with all sorts of fun features, including an audible CPR Metronome, a dual-mode color LCD with a high-contrast mode for use in bright sunlight, up to six hours of operating time, and energy dosing for difficult-to-defibrillate patients. Just make sure it's nice and dry before you plug the paddles in. For reals. Video after the break.
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Cool med tech...
Heck with band-aid brigade. These are perfect for fire trucks. Our current AED's take a beating.
The 60 second boot animation gets a bit annoying when your patient is going tachy and the fact that you have to plug it into a 12v cigarette outlet is inconvenient.
LOL I am with you on that one. It is pretty bad when you have family members asking "why are you not doing anything?" and your response would be "Ma'am, I wish I could shock your husband, but I have to wait for this thing to boot up!"
But can it deal with a crysis?
Ahhh... I see what you did there. Clever, well played my good sir!
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Thats just cool looking.......
the 80's want their "ghetto blaster" back.
Wow... i am feeling old... we used Lifepak 5s and 10s when I was a medic.... and they are no longer :(
Yeah I hear ya on that one too. I recall a old dino of a LP4 sitting around in one ED that I worked in. The current place I work we use 10's to transport pts to the ICU.
With a couple of speakers on each end, this thing would make a pretty gnarly ghetto blaster.
Even has a deck for LL Cool J's freshest cut.
This thing looks like it could pump some mad beats.
I...I'm sorry.
Good things those French paramedics weren't on strike when all those people collapsed!
"or extremely clumsy paramedics"
First of all it's for cardiac paramedics second of all, ever seen anyone getting shocked ? there is a reason these things are bulletproof and it certainly isn't clumsy paramedics.
You watch too much TV.
It's a good thing it cannot play MP3s, because otherwise they'd always be out of batteries when it came time to de-fibrillate. And having the paramedic playing rap in its shitty speakers (bip----bi-bi--bi-bip----bibip--bip) while driving to the hospital would make the patients ask for discharges until they passed out.
looks like MedPack from X-Com!
It's spelled "sailor".
Holy Star Trek that's cool!
They had these since the 1970's though, so yeah star-trek is right.
Or as the cops call it, a hands-on taser.
Hey...I resemble that remark as well and am a very well versed career firefighter/critical care paramedic who reads from this website more than I than I go to church (still hopin' I don't get struck by lightning for admittin' to such) but MedTronic/Physio...whoever the hell they are now makes one hell of a machine and I've used their product throughout my career of twenty years and these machines are kick-ass! Philips, Zoll, and everyone else always has their pluses, but, these things are frickin' INDESTRUCTIBLE and are so much of a pleasure to use...the one regret is that I never got a job with MedTronic as a rep to sell these things...matter-of-factly cardioverted a huge dude with one yesterday and it worked like a charm! Now I want one of the places I work for to trade in our 12's for these 15's! Can I hear an Amen???
Amen- I hear you on that one. Brother. I have used Physio's beasts for as long, as medic and now as ED nurse. I have had opportunity to use a Zoll, a Phillips and even a HP. But they are still playing in the bigboys yard.
Amen!
And here's to more than 1 hour of battery life! Carrying 8 extras a shift is a pain in the ass!
I LOVE my LP12 and can't wait to get my hands on a LP15! I've run over a LP12 with a multi-ton ambulance and nothing was wrong with it. We've had a LP12 go through a fire and come out scorched badly, but still useable! Zolls suck, most expensive boat anchor ever! The Philips is ok, but has many issues, the Welch Allyn is just a toy. LP12/15 is made perfect for medics!
i was expecting a lot more from what our medtronic rep was saying... just a prettier LP12.
...Chris, it's still better than a Zoll or Philips, isn't it? At one place, we've got the new E series and I don't wanna turn this post into slam them thing, but, I frickin' hate it and I don't like the rep my boss had to deal with...I actually kinda like that Philips animal...I work really part-time for a staffing agency too and at an ICU that I travel too in rural TIMBUKTU... they have a couple/few Philips...and it does need its bugs worked out, but, I kinda like that goofy thing...BUT...not as much as my MEDTRONIC toys...there's nothing better than a LIFEPAK...NOTHING...!!! Not bragging, cuz it kinda makes me look like a dumbass, but, I was working a code in a 2nd floor walk-up bedroom and had set the damn LP12 on an open window ledge and one of the family members came in screaming...as she was havin' her "come apart" she knocked the damn monitor out the window and onto the sidewalk...now, it cracked a bit, but, one of the firefighters that I was working with went down to get it, brought it back up and instead of needing to give that thing last rights, I just plugged her right back in and kept going as if nothing happened...NOW WHO'S GONNA TELL ME any of these others would stand up to a two-story fall onto cement? There are many other reasons why I'm a LIFEPAK kinda GUY, but, this is a gadget site and I don't wanna go on about them here. MY POINT...LIFEPAK ROCKS and this '15' is now the BADDEST KID ON THE BLOCK...you other kids better have your engineers/designers on the ball or you're about to be blown out of the water...and eventually drown!
i cant count how many times these things fall and the screen breaks. why do they use glass over the lcd? oh ya $$$
Never had a broken screen on one where I work (15 in total). We are however constantly breaking the Panasonic toughbook screens on a monthly basis. For some reason when you close the laptop, the pen has to be off the keyboard.
eXtreme conditions, huh? the speaker as wekk as an open ports need to be located near the top, not the bottom.
thanks,
tha MANAGEMENT.
Anyone has first hand experience with this baby? We use 12s, is it any better? (EMS sercive of a european capital, so we don't really need our monitors to be "bulletproof".) I mean other than the obvious "It looks so much more badass than the 12!" :)