Distribution of Powerheart AEDs Begins to U.S. Hospitals

Cardiac Science has announced that GE Healthcare initiated marketing and distribution of Cardiac Science's line of Powerheart-branded automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and fully automatic, in-hospital defibrillator-monitors (CRMs) to hospitals in the U.S. and Canada.

GE's subacute hospital sales force has begun marketing Cardiac Science's new Powerheart AED G3 PRO, Powerheart AED G3 and Powerheart CRM. Cardiac Science will support the GE sales effort via its regional sales specialists based in strategic North American locations.

The G3 PRO AED is unique in that it displays the victim's heart rhythm on a built-in, high resolution, color electrocardiogram display and gives professional users the option of delivering defibrillation shocks either semiautomatically or manually during the emergency treatment of victims of sudden cardiac arrest.

The CRM is a lightweight fully featured external defibrillator that offers a complete therapeutic monitoring package in a single device - continuous cardiac monitoring, synchronized cardioversion, noninvasive pacing as well as manual, semiautomatic or fully automatic defibrillation.