Editing Automated external defibrillator (section)

==History==
The first use of an external defibrillator on a human was in 1947 by Claude Beck.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.case.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2/museum/artifacts/group-c/c-8defrib.htm |title=Claude Beck, defibrillation and CPR |publisher=Case Western Reserve University |access-date=2007-06-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024145652/http://case.edu/artsci/dittrick/site2/museum/artifacts/group-c/c-8defrib.htm |archive-date=2007-10-24 }}</ref> The portable version of the external defibrillator was invented in 1957 by [[Frank Pantridge]] in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]], a pioneer in emergency medical treatment.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shurlock|first1=B|title=Pioneers in cardiology: Frank Pantridge, CBE, MC, MD, FRCP, FACC|journal=Circulation|date=18 December 2007|volume=116|issue=25|pages=f145–48|pmid=18086933|doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.187677|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Evans|first1=Alun|title=Frank Pantridge|journal=BMJ|date=April 2, 2005|volume=330|issue=7494|page=793|pmc=555899|doi=10.1136/bmj.330.7494.793}}</ref> Pantridge's defibrillator required a trained operator to perform the shock procedure and charted a course for many new innovations in external defibrillation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=EMS Innovators|url=https://emsmuseum.org/collections/ems-innovators/|access-date=2021-07-13|website=EMS Museum|language=en-US}}</ref>

In the late 1970s the Heart-Aid was developed as the first truly automated external defibrillator that was designed for the public. The principles of ABC assessment and a human voice relaying instructions helped bystanders respond to a sudden cardiac event while waiting for the first responders to get to scene.<ref name="Heart-Aid Defibrillator"/> Many of the early innovations in the Heart-Aid model are still part of the current generation of AEDs, although some innovations, like the airway electrode have fallen from use.