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Public AED cost per shock

Public defibrillators: high investment, low return – lowering the cost per shock – the D€FI-CO$T study
Resuscitation · Added 27 July 2026

Analysis of public AED deployment cost-effectiveness found very low usage rates relative to investment — the study examines strategies to improve cost per delivered shock.

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Learning goal

Understand the system factors that influence whether public defibrillators are actually used in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

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• Topic: Cardiac arrest
• Daily scan: 27 July 2026

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