Is the AED as intuitive as we think? Potential relevance of "The Sound of Silence" during AED use

Resusc Plus. 2022 Nov 2:12:100323. doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2022.100323. eCollection 2022 Dec.

Cristian Abelairas-Gómez^{1

2

3}, Aida Carballo-Fazanes^{1

2}, Todd P Chang^{4

5}, Nino Fijačko^{6

3}, Antonio Rodríguez-Núñez^{1

2

7}

¹ CLINURSID Research Group, Psychiatry, Radiology, Public Health, Nursing and Medicine Department, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
² SICRUS Research Group, Health Research Institute of Santiago, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela-CHUS, Spain.
³ ERC Research Net, Niels, Belgium.
⁴ Division of Emergency Medicine & Transport & Las Madrinas Simulation Center, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁵ Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
⁶ University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Maribor, Slovenia.
⁷ Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela-CHUS, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: AED, Automated external defibrillator; BLS, Basic life support; OOHCA, Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.