NRS450B.0505. “Automated external defibrillator” and “defibrillator” defined.  


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  •   “Automated external defibrillator” or “defibrillator” means a medical device that:

          1.  Has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration;

          2.  Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia in a patient;

          3.  Is capable of determining, without intervention by the operator of the device, whether defibrillation should be performed on a patient;

          4.  Upon determining that defibrillation should be performed on a patient, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to the patient’s heart; and

          5.  Upon appropriate action by the operator of the device, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to the patient’s heart.

      (Added to NRS by 2013, 1869)