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Faulty Defibrillators
FDA warns defibrillator components faulty
FDA warns 14 models of external defibrillators have faulty components

The FDA has issued a warning on the use of 14 models of external defibrillators used worldwide. It is estimated that about 280-thousand of these defibrillators, used at home or in public places to rescue someone suffering from cardiac arrest, may malfunction. Cardiac arrest is a condition in which the heart stops beating and blood stops flowing to the brain an other organs. The external defibrillators send an electric shock to restore the persons normal heartbeat. Faulty components may cause these defibrillators to fail to deliver the shock as well as a failure to accurately analyze a persons heart rhythm.