Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Precision timing in public-access defibrillation: a study of time-stamped data recorded by automatic external defibrillator from railway stations
Authors' conclusion
Second-by-second AED log data in real world can provide valuable insight into the actual implementation of PAD programs. Railway stations are high-impact locations for AED deployment, and such data can provide a practical benchmark for assessing and improving AED accessibility.
Study context
- Population
- Automated external defibrillator (AEDs) deployed at Japanese railway stations, March 2019 to August 2023AEDs deployed at railway stations, activated 384 times
- Participants
- 1,066 aeds
- Outcome
- AED activations
- Follow-up
- 53 months
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
AED activations
384
Shockable rhythms identified
111 out of 384 cases
29.4 %
Shocks delivered
109 out of 384 cases
28.9 %
Internal discharges
two cases (1.8 %)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
AED operating intervals
s
- Median time from power-on to rhythm analysis
- 53
- Median interval from completion of charge to shock delivery
- 5
Number of uses per device
- Number of uses varied by location; some devices used up to 10 times, others not used at all
- 10
Original publication
Precision timing in public-access defibrillation: a study of time-stamped data recorded by automatic external defibrillator from railway stations. Resuscitation. Published 27 June 2025. doi:10.
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