Mike Etheridge is director,
marketing – defibrillators, Cardiac Science Corp. To reach Mike or for
more information, visit www.cardiacscience.com or call (800) 991-5465.
Each
year, as many as 450,000 people die from various types of cardiac
arrest in the United States, many from Sudden Cardiac Arrest, otherwise
known as SCA. Out-of-hospital SCA survival rates average 7 percent, but
survival rates can substantially increase if victims are treated with
an electric shock from an automated external defibrillator (AED), in
conjunction with CPR immediately following the event