| A defibrillator is not going to run correctly unless | | | | Keeping Your Battery Charged |
| the defibrillator battery is working. A defibrillator | | | | Anything that's battery operated requires a well |
| battery creates the charge of energy that travels | | | | maintained battery. Your remote control won't |
| through the rest of the defibrillator to jumpstart | | | | work if the batteries are dead and neither will |
| the heart. Without an energy source, the | | | | your defibrillator. If you're getting a defibrillator |
| defibrillator simply won't work. | | | | implant, make sure you go over the battery |
| Battery Interaction | | | | function with your doctor. Your doctor will |
| Defibrillator batteries are used in both internal and | | | | program the implant to beep when the battery is |
| external defibrillators. In an internal defibrillator, or | | | | running out of power. You'll also be expected to |
| defibrillator implant, the entire defibrillator is placed | | | | have a check up every three months to make |
| in the person's chest. The battery in a defibrillator | | | | sure the battery is working correctly. |
| implant sends a charge through an electrode wire. | | | | When your defibrillator battery is ready to be |
| The electrode wire is actually placed in a vein in | | | | charged, you'll use some kind of external charger |
| the heart's chamber. This allows it to deliver the | | | | to juice it up. External defibrillators are also |
| shock immediately when it detects and irregular | | | | charged through some sort of external source. |
| heartbeat. Defibrillator implants are only placed in | | | | These batteries generally have a shelf life of four |
| people who have serious heart conditions. | | | | years. Though these defibrillator batteries last for |
| The other type of defibrillator is called an external | | | | a while, they will need to be replaced at some |
| defibrillator. This device is used by emergency | | | | point. |
| technicians when a patient is going through cardiac | | | | Disposing of the Battery |
| arrest. Cardiac arrest occurs when the heartbeat | | | | As people have become more environmentally |
| becomes extremely irregular (usually it speeds up) | | | | conscious, defibrillator providers have started to |
| and prevents the heart from delivering blood and | | | | offer battery-recycling services. For example, the |
| oxygen to vital organs. | | | | AED Superstore will recycle defibrillator batteries. |
| An external defibrillator battery is connected to | | | | All you have to do is discharge the batteries and |
| two pads. These pads are the size of a man's | | | | ship them to the company. |
| hand. They are placed on a person's chest. The | | | | You do not have to recycle your defibrillator |
| battery is housed in a carrying unit. When it's | | | | battery, but it is an environmentally friendly |
| needed, it sends the charge through the pad | | | | gesture and it's not expensive. All you have to |
| chords to the pads. After the shock, the person | | | | pay for is the shipping costs to send your |
| should make some kind of movement between | | | | defibrillator battery to the superstore. |
| 10 and 12 seconds. | | | | |