Uso del desfibrilador externo automático en el campus de la Universidad Santiago de Cali

Abstract

The following research monograph is carried out in the need of the university Santiago de Cali, in the proper use of the automatic external defibrillator (DEA) in people who collapse suddenly. The initial approach is part of the third link in the survival chain, which is fundamental for the management of most frequent cardiac arrest in adults, ventricular fibrillation (FV) and pulseless ventricular tachycardia (TV) two highly lethal arrhythmias. Early defibrillation and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (RCP) of public access are currently recognized as a public health measure that impact favorably on timely care, Of sudden events in public or private places of great influx of people. That is why it is considered necessary to support the determinants and associated factors of the use of the DEA, to promote its implementation in a highly crowded place such as the campus of the university Santiago de Cali.