Portable defibrillator and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
Desfibrilador portátil y desfibrilador implantable
- Date
- 1956-1965 · confidence high
- Place
- Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland (portable, 1965); Johns Hopkins, Baltimore (implantable, 1980)
- Credited to
- Paul Zoll (external defibrillation, 1956); Frank Pantridge (portable in ambulances, 1965); Michel Mirowski (implantable, 1980)
- People
- 👤 Frank Pantridge1916–2004👤 Michel Mirowski1924–1990👤 paul zoll1911–1999
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A device that restores the heart's rhythm with an electric shock, first carried to the patient by ambulance and later implanted under the skin. It turned cardiac arrest into a survivable event.
What it led to
- Mobile coronary care units and the emergency medical system
- Automated external defibrillators in public spaces
- Interventional cardiology
Built on
- Electrocardiograph (ECG)1903
- Implantable pacemaker1958
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation (1960)
- capacitors
Made possible
- automated external defibrillator
- medicalised ambulances