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Key Moments in the History of Defibrillation
1775 Peter Christian Abildgaard shows that hens can be made lifeless with
electrical impulses and he could restore a pulse with electrical shocks across
the chest.
1849 Frederick Ludwig and Albert Hoffa demonstrated that a single electrical
pulse can induce fibrillation.
1888 Mac William, a clinician, noted that ventricular fibrillation might be the
cause of sudden death giving rise to the idea of fibrillation.
1899 Professors Jean-Louis Prevost and Frederic Batelli discover that large
electrical voltages applied across an animal's heart can stop ventricular
fibrillation.
1932 Dr. William Bennett Kouwenhoven develops a device for shocking the heart
with a jolt of electricity. The defibrillator was created as a method to cure
the heart condition in which the normal rhythmical contractions are modified or
cease owing to irregular twitching of the heart wall.
1947 Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck first successfully defibrillated a human
heart.
1954 Kouwenhoven and Milnor defibrillated a dog through a closed chest with a
capacitor-discharged defibrillator.
1956 Paul Maurice Zoll performed the first successful human chest external
defibrillation.
1961 Alexander, Kleiger, and Lown first described the use of AC current for
terminating VT
1967 Pantridge and Geddes reported an increase in out-of-hospital survival from
cardiac arrest by using a mobile coronary care unit equipped with a
battery-powered DC defibrillator in Belfast.
Late 1960's Dr. Micheal Mirowski began the initial work on the implantable
defibrillator.
1969 Defibrillation by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) without the presence
of physicians was first performed in Portland, Oregon.
1974-1980 Dr Arch Diack, Robert Rullman, and Dr. W Stanley Welborn developed
prototype Automated external defibrillators.
1980 Prehospital trails of the Heart Aid device a heart pacing device.
1982 FDA gives approval for EMT-defibrillation clinical trials.
1999 United installs its first defibrillator on a 747. In aviation history,
Chicago's O'Hare International and Midway Airports were the first airports in
the United States to provide defibrillators to employees.
Related Health Care Information:
Heart Information
Defibrillation History
Related Health Care Products:
Defibrillators
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