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Defibrillator Market Expected to Experience Steady Growth

There are two types of defibrillators – ICDs and AEDs. Both are life-saving devices and the market for these medical machines continues to grow.

Sat Feb 01 2014By Medical Dealer Magazine

Defibrillator Market Expected to Experience Steady Growth

by Matthew N. Skoufalos

Medical Dealer Magazine | Product Focus | Product Showroom | Physio-Control

There are two types of defibrillators – ICDs and AEDs. Both are life-saving devices and the market for these medical machines continues to grow.

The Mayo Clinic website describes an ICD or implantable cardioverter defibrillator as “a pager-sized device that’s implanted into your chest — may reduce your risk of dying if the lower chambers of your heart (ventricles) go into a dangerous rhythm and stop beating effectively (cardiac arrest). You may need an implantable cardioverter defibrillator if you have a dangerously fast heartbeat (ventricular tachycardia) or a chaotic heartbeat that makes it so your heart can’t supply enough blood to the rest of your body (ventricular fibrillation).”

The Mayo Clinic explains that, “Implantable cardioverter defibrillators work by detecting and stopping abnormal heartbeats (arrhythmias). An implantable cardioverter defibrillator continuously monitors your heartbeat and delivers extra beats or electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rhythm when necessary.”

An AED or automated exter-nal defibrillator is described by the American Heart Association as “a lightweight, portable device that delivers an electric shock through the chest to the heart. The shock can stop an irregular rhythm and allow a normal rhythm to resume in a heart in sudden cardiac arrest.”

TechNavio’s analysts forecast the global ICD market to reach $6.22 billion by 2015.

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