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By: Shirley Adams - March 31, 2003

About 1,000 Americans die every day from sudden cardiac arrest. Many of them could survive if they immediately received a jolt of electricity, from a machine called a defibrillator, to reset their heart. Special automated defibrillators, designed for use by laypersons with minimal training, have been available since the early 1980s. Over the last several […]