BOTHELL, Wash., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —
Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated
external defibrillator (
AED) and diagnostic
cardiac monitoring devices, has been awarded a contract to
deploy Powerheart® AEDs at U.S. Postal Inspection Service sites
across the nation. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the
primary law enforcement arm of the United States Postal
Service.
“We are proud to have been selected to protect the men and women
of the Postal Inspection Service,” said Dave Marver, Cardiac
Science president and chief executive officer.
The Powerheart AED’s RescueCoach™ user-paced voice prompts
and CPR metronome guide rescuers confidently through a stressful
rescue situation. The Powerheart AED G3 Plus delivers a shock
automatically with no button to push and no human intervention.
After the shock, the Powerheart AED instructs users how to perform
high-quality CPR.
About Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in North
America, claiming more than 365,000 lives each year. It’s estimated
that more than 95 percent of cardiac arrest victims die before
reaching the hospital. In cardiac arrest, the heart’s electrical
impulses fire irregularly and the heart cannot pump blood to the
rest of the body. A defibrillator is the only effective therapy for
sudden cardiac arrest. It provides a life-saving shock to
effectively restart the heart’s electrical impulses.
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