{"id":21931,"date":"2022-01-28T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/emergency-medical-services\/?p=21931"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:18:51","slug":"defibrillator-pad-incompatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/emergency-medical-services\/2022\/01\/28\/defibrillator-pad-incompatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Defibrillator Pad Incompatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vdh.virginia.gov\/content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2020\/06\/NASEMSO-logo-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"158\" \/><br \/>\nThe National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) Pediatric Emergency Care (PEC) Council recently learned of several issues regarding automatic external defibrillator (AED) pad incompatibility, with multi-function defibrillator and AED pads not being used in accordance with manufacturer\u2019s recommendations, particularly in pediatric applications.<\/p>\n<p>To review\u00a0NASEMSO\u2019s memo in full, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/nasemso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Defibrillator-Pad-Incompatibility-Memo-2022-0125.pdf\">https:\/\/nasemso.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Defibrillator-Pad-Incompatibility-Memo-2022-0125.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Association of State EMS Officials (NASEMSO) Pediatric Emergency Care (PEC) Council recently learned of several issues regarding automatic external defibrillator (AED) pad incompatibility, with multi-function defibrillator and AED [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":16356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"modified_by":"marianhunter","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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