AEDs and AED Supplies

 The Defibtech Lifeline & Lifeline AUTO AEDs are simple yet powerful AEDs with features that make it easy for both professional rescuers and lay users to save a life.

• Voice prompts - Calm, clear, and confident voice leads the user through the rescue
  • Each instruction given concisely
  • Rescue walkthrough one step at a time
• Text-prompts - Unique LEDs instead of LCD screen
  • Brightly lit progress lights provide clear visual guidance
  • Reinforces voice instructions
• Flexible rescue techniques - easy to use with both traditional and hands-only CPR
• Simple, rugged, award-winning design
  • Durable - made of the same materials used in football helmets
    • Manufactured to withstand dust and water ingress
    • Tested to military standards for shock and vibration
    • Jet aircraft and helicopter tested
  • Lightweight, fully integrated design with no lids or moving parts that would confuse or delay a rescue
  • Roomy handle big enough even for gloved hands
  • Rubberized surfaces provide a sure grip in an emergency
• Pediatric pads for pediatric rescue
  • Unit automatically switches to pediatric voice prompts when attached
  • Reduce energy levels for safe use on patients under 8 years of age or under 55 lbs
• 9V battery used for self-checks, ensuring AED battery fully charged for rescue.
• Cost of ownership over 10 years is low
  • Electrode pads comparably priced
  • Long-life batteries
• Rescue information
  • Data from the unit is automatically recorded
  • Data is easily retrieved from the device using a data card
• 8 year warranty

• Semi-automatic (LifelineTM) - only two buttons
• Fully-automatic (LifelineTM Auto) - just an On button to start the rescue
• Five or seven year battery standby life
  • Five year battery - 125 shocks or 8 hours of continuous use
  • Seven year battery
    • 300 shocks or 16 hours of continuous use
    • No other AED offers a battery with up to 7 years of standby use

What is an AED?   

An automated external defibrillator (AED) is a lightweight, portable device that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart. The shock can stop an irregular rhythm and allow a normal rhythm to resume in a heart in sudden cardiac arrest. Sudden cardiac arrest is an abrupt loss of heart function. If it’s not treated within minutes, it quickly leads to death. Most sudden cardiac arrests result from ventricular fibrillation. This is a rapid and unsynchronized heart rhythm starting in the heart’s lower pumping chambers (the ventricles). The heart must be “defibrillated” quickly, because a victim’s chance of surviving drops by 7 to 10 percent for every minute a normal heartbeat is not restored. 

​Why are AEDs important?   

AEDs make it possible for more people to respond to a medical emergency where defibrillation is required. Because AEDs are portable, they can be used by nonmedical people. They can be made part of emergency response programs that also include rapid use of 9-1-1 and prompt delivery of cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR). All three of these activities are vital to improving survival from cardiac arrest.     ​

How does an AED work?   

A built-in computer checks a victim’s heart rhythm through adhesive electrodes. The computer calculates whether defibrillation is needed. If it is, a recorded voice tells the rescuer to press the shock button on the AED. This shock momentarily stuns the heart and stops all activity. It gives the heart the chance to resume beating effectively. Instructions guide the user through the process. AEDs advise a shock only for ventricular fibrillation or another life-threatening condition called pulseless ventricular tachycardia.     

Who can use an AED?  

Non-medical personnel such as police, fire service personnel, flight attendants, security guards and other lay rescuers who have been properly trained can use AEDs.      

Are AEDs safe to use?  

AEDs are safe to use by anyone who’s been trained to operate them. Studies have shown that 90 percent of the time AEDs are able to detect a rhythm that should be defibrillated. And 95 percent of the time they are able to recommend NOT shocking when the computer shows   defibrillation is not indicated.