How to Use a Defibrillator

1 part - Preparing to Use the AED

1. - Confirm cardiac arrest. If you see a person who appears to have an emergency episode,
you need to check to ensure that it is cardiac arrest before you use an AED.

2. - Try to wake the person up. If you come upon a person and you have no idea how long he
has been unconscious, you need to make sure he is actually having medical problems and is not
just asleep.

3.- Call 911. As soon as you assess that it is an emergency situation, you need to call 911.

4. - Start CPR. If you are not there alone, you should start giving CPR while the other person is
getting the AED. If you are alone, call 911, then start CPR.

2 parts - Using the AED

1. - Make sure the patient is dry. Before you turn on and use an AED, you need to make sure
that the person you are helping is not wet. If they are, you need to dry them off. If there is water in
the immediate area, you need to move the person to a dry place.

2. - Turn on the AED. Once you are sure there is no water, you need to turn on the AED. When it
comes on, it will give you instructions of how to handle the situation.

3. - Prepare the chest area. To use the AED pads, you must remove certain things from the
victim. Open or cut through his shirt. If his chest is very hairy, you will have to shave it. You should
also look for signs of implanted devices, such as a pacemaker. If you see any metal jewelry or
accessory, remove it. The metal will conduct electricity.

4. - Apply the pads. The electrodes for the AED are typically adhesive pads. The AED will advise
you to put the electrodes or pads in place. You need to make sure that they are placed correctly
so the victim will get the maximum amount of shock necessary.

5.- Let the AED analyze. Once the pads are properly in place, you need to get everyone clear of
the victim. When everyone has moved back, press the analyze button on the AED. It will begin to
analyze the heart rhythm of the victim.

6. - Shock the victim if necessary. If the AED advises that you need to shock the patient, you
need to make sure, once again, that the victim is clear.

7. - Continue CPR. Once you have given the victim a shock, you need to continue CPR. You
should do it for 2 additional minutes and then let the AED check for a heart rhythm again.
Top 10 Greatest Medical Discoveries of All Time

Science has never moved at such a rapid rate as it is now and as each discovery brings with it
countless more developments, it stands to reason that our scientific understanding has
snowballed with time. To celebrate these developments then, and to put things back in
perspective somewhat, lets look at ten of the most important medical discoveries of all time

La ciencia nunca se ha movido a un ritmo tan rpido como lo es ahora y cada descubrimiento
trae consigo innumerables desarrollos ms, es lgico que nuestra comprensin cientfica se haya
"llenado de nieve" con el tiempo. Para celebrar estos desarrollos entonces, y para poner las
cosas de nuevo en perspectiva un poco, veamos diez de los descubrimientos mdicos ms
importantes de todos los tiempos

1) Penicillin - Essentially the discovery of penicillin is responsible for the development of all the
antibiotics that we use today to combat bacteria.

1) Penicilina - Esencialmente el descubrimiento de la penicilina es responsable del desarrollo de

todos los antibiticos que utilizamos hoy para combatir las bacterias.

2) Vaccination- using small doses of disease to teach the body to protect itself from certain
viruses

2) Vacunacin - usando pequeas dosis de enfermedad para ensear al cuerpo a protegerse de

ciertos virus

3) Germ Theory - which shed light on the causes of diseases and lead to many of the hygiene
practices we now take for granted.

3) Teora del Germen - que arrojan luz sobre las causas de las enfermedades y llevan a muchas
de las prcticas de higiene que ahora damos por sentadas.

4) Anaesthetic If you ever had to have an operation without any form of anaesthetic then you
would likely have a whole new appreciation for just how important this discovery was.

4) Anestsico - Si alguna vez tuvieron que someterse a una operacin sin ningn tipo de
anestesia, probablemente tendran una nueva apreciacin de lo importante que fue este
descubrimiento.

5) Insulin Today, thanks to this finding, most diabetic patients manage to live normal and full
lives which has affected the lives of millions of people around the world.

5) Insulina - Hoy en da, gracias a este hallazgo, la mayora de los pacientes diabticos logran
vivir una vida normal y plena que ha afectado la vida de millones de personas en todo el mundo.
6) DNA DNA the discovery of DNA has also lead to many important discussions on the nature
of humanity and our role in our own evolution.

6) ADN - ADN el descubrimiento del ADN tambin ha llevado a muchas discusiones importantes
sobre la naturaleza de la humanidad y nuestro papel en nuestra propia evolucin.

7) X-Ray Before x-rays repairing broken bones and identifying the cause of many other
problems would have been hugely more difficult and has played a role in colouring our
understanding of the human body even further.

7) Rayos X - Antes de que los rayos X que reparan los huesos rotos e identificando la causa de
muchos otros problemas hubieran sido enormemente ms difciles y han jugado un papel en el
color de nuestra comprensin del cuerpo humano an ms.

8) The Circulatory System This led to a far better understanding of the human body in general
and to many of the treatments and techniques we now take for granted.

8) El Sistema Circulatorio - Esto condujo a una comprensin mucho mejor del cuerpo humano en
general ya muchos de los tratamientos y tcnicas que ahora damos por sentados.

9) HIV HIV- This discovery of course led to a greater awareness of the dangers of unprotected
sex as well as to the various treatments that exist today to make the condition manageable.

9) VIH-VIH-Este descubrimiento, por supuesto, llev a una mayor conciencia de los peligros de
las relaciones sexuales sin proteccin, as como a los diversos tratamientos que existen hoy en
da para hacer la condicin manejable ..

10) Vitamins The discovery of vitamins by Frederick Hopkins and contemporaries,

accomplished through feeding studies using animals at the start of the 1900s, led to a far better
understanding of nutrient and helped to prevent many illnesses and conditions that resulted from
deficiencies.

10) Vitaminas - El descubrimiento de vitaminas por Frederick Hopkins y contemporneos,

realizado a travs de los estudios de alimentacin con animales a principios del siglo XX, llev a
una mejor comprensin de nutrientes y ayud a prevenir muchas enfermedades y condiciones
que resultaron de deficiencias.