Part 5: Electrical Therapies

Focused nurse-defibrillation training: a simple and cost-effective strategy to improve survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest

“…Later, those AHA-affiliated authors began addressing the issue but linked nurse defibrillation closely with the purchase and use of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) [9]. The American Heart Association/International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation's stance continues to be that AEDs are the key to achieving early defibrillation in hospitals [10]. …”