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Uso do desfibrilador automático externo no ambiente pré-hospitalar peruano: melhorando a resposta a emergências na América Latina

2009; Associação de Medicina Intensiva Brasileira; Volume: 21; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0103-507x2009000300015

1982-4335

Pablo Lister, Christian Loret de Mola, Elena Velasco Arroyo, José Solórzano, Raffo Escalante-Kanashiro, Giuliana Matos-Iberico,

Quality and Safety in Healthcare

This case report relates out-of-hospital care to a patient with risk factors treated in the out-of-hospital services after cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation. The patient was treated according to the standards of basic life support and advanced cardiovascular life support; by applying an automated external defibrillator (AED) with favorable outcome and successful recovery of the patient from his risk of life condition. This is the first documented report with a favorable outcome in Peru, in out-of-hospital services and stresses the desirability of adopting policies for public access to early defibrillation.