Cardiac Arrest Resources

• Treatment
  • Automated External Defibrillator (AED)(Food and Drug Administration)
  • Automated External Defibrillators: Do You Need an AED?(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
  • JAMA Patient Page: Automated External Defibrillators(American Medical Association)

    Also available in Spanish

  • Links in the Chain of Survival(American Heart Association)
  • New Concepts of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for the Lay Public(American Heart Association)
• Related Issues
  • Ventricular Fibrillation(Merck & Co., Inc.)
• Anatomy/Physiology
  • How the Heart Works(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
• Clinical Trials
  • ClinicalTrials.gov: Death, Sudden, Cardiac(National Institutes of Health)
• Dictionaries/Glossaries
• Organizations
  • American Heart Association
  • Heart Rhythm Society
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation
• Statistics
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest — Statistics(American Heart Association) - Links to PDF
• Children
  • Facts about Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young(Sudden Arrhythmia Death Syndromes (SADS) Foundation) - Links to PDF