‘Automated external defibrillator’ or ‘defibrillator’ means a medical device that:

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1.  Has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration;

2.  Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia in a patient;

3.  Is capable of determining, without intervention by the operator of the device, whether defibrillation should be performed on a patient;

4.  Upon determining that defibrillation should be performed on a patient, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to the patient’s heart; and

5.  Upon appropriate action by the operator of the device, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to the patient’s heart.