Defibrillators could save many more lives if associated with basic life support education

Monday, August 29, 2016 - 14:32 in Health & Medicine

Automatic external defibrillators fail to save lives when the public does not have basic life support education, according to new research. The study found that public access defibrillation programs are unevenly deployed across France, with an obvious impact on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate.

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