The 700 defibrillators will be rolled out in the next month in rail and bus stations, airports, shopping centres and leisure centres.
A network of more than 700 defibrillators - or heart shockers - is to be installed in public places, such as railway stations, to improve the chance of survival of those suffering cardiac arrest.
From 1998 to 2005 the use of equipment such as defibrillators and drug-eluting stents expanded rapidly.
The system even enables cardiologists to test and reprogram pacemakers or implanted defibrillators from the other side of the globe.
It was a University of Minnesota researcher who in the 1950s created the world's first pacemaker, which led on to other devices such as defibrillators and neurological stimulators.The arrival of the knowledge economy, argue the land-grant universities, means that their mandate should become even broader.
Easy-to-use defibrillators can bring heart-attack victims back from the brink of death.
Only a handful of companies currently make AEDs and PMA compliance should add less than $100 to the price of devices that already cost more than $1,000 apiece.Even though the FDA believes most manufacturers have gathered the clinical data necessary for a PMA, it is prepared to grant companies an additional 15-month grace period before pulling defibrillators from walls.
We all subsidise the costs of providing on-board defibrillators for patients who suffer cardiac events on planes.
By contrast Britain's firemen, notoriously, have in past decades for the most part stubbornly refused training in such medical skills as administering pain-killers, or to carry equipment such as defibrillators (for treating heart attacks).The third question is the role of the private sector.
Those who strongly believe in the moral-hazard story should also start campaigning against defibrillators in public spaces.
This is not just a marketing slogan: all products, from heart defibrillators to coffee machines, must become easy and intuitive to use.Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, is already brilliant at turning consumers on.
