AEDs are an impressive example of voice prompts enhancing user interactions with a medical device. Defibrillators use voice prompts to guide users through the numerous steps required to perform successful CPR and Defibirllation.
Spoken instructions, such as "call for help" and "remain calm" spare the first responder from having to read text or graphical instructions, which would be more time-consuming and could create confusion.
The world's first portable defibrillator was launched by the Royal Victoria Hospital-Belfast in Ireland under the direction of doctors Frank Pantridge and John Geddes.
“Pantridge’s vision in the 1950s was that a defibrillator should be beside every fire extinguisher”
This is becoming possible with the CellAEDs significanly smaller size and lower purchase price.
Read more at:
https://www.mddionline.com/cardiovascular/evolution-life-saving-medical-device-talks
