The importance of AEDs has been more and more recognized by the public, and it has been agreed by everyone that AEDs are placed in public places to improve the emergency rescue capability of cardiac arrest. So, do hospitals also need to be equipped with AEDs?

Many people will have such doubts: the hospital already has advanced rescue equipment and professional medical staff, why should it be equipped with such a "fool-style" AED? Will it be a waste of resources?

But is this really the case?

According to Wanji Medical Equipment, from the perspective of emergency response

For a patient with sudden cardiac arrest, the "golden time" is only 4 minutes. If CPR and electric shock defibrillation are implemented in time within 4 minutes, the survival rate can be increased to more than 40%. A one-minute delay reduces survival by 10%.

However, rescue equipment such as defibrillators in hospitals are not standard in all departments, and are mainly deployed in emergency departments, ICUs, operating rooms, cardiovascular medicine and surgery wards. Because the patients in these wards are in critical condition, the utilization rate of rescue equipment is very high. Also, due to the frequent rescue of critically ill patients, rescue equipment such as defibrillators must be available 24 hours a day, and must not be borrowed.

That is to say, if a patient suffers a sudden cardiac arrest in public areas such as the outpatient hall and canteen, he may not be able to receive timely and effective rescue within the golden 4 minutes, even though he is in the hospital.

Placing AEDs in the public areas of the hospital is a supplement and improvement to the original emergency system, which can greatly improve the emergency response speed and the success rate of treatment.