"Off hours" limit access to AEDs in cardiac arrest

In Denmark, Copenhagen, nearly every individual who collapsed from cardiac arrest during working weekday hours did so in a location that was within 100 m of a publicly accessible AED, whereas just 53.4% of cardiac arrests that occurred within proximity of an AED in the evening, at night, or on the weekend had access to the devices.

Source: theHeart.org - September 17, 2013 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news