Philips HeartStart defibrillator

In case your fibrillator need defibrillating, Philips is poised to bring this automatic defibrillator to market once the FDA approves direct-to-consumer sales of the devices.  You've seen these on ER and other medical shows, or perhaps you've seen them in person: automatic defibrillators help bring abnormal heart rhythms back to normal and can save people about to go into cardiac arrest.  In fact, they work only for a cardiac arrest, when the heart's regular beat is too fast or too slow, causing it to stop pumping blood and leading to immediate loss of consciousness.  The Philips unit provides step-by-step voice prompts on how to apply on how to apply the paddles -
the machine then automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and shocks it back to normal, if necessary.  There's a drinking game in here somewhere, we're sure. Did we just say that?

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