Who is reviewing the data review systems of automated external defibrillators? : Implications of flawed time lines for clinicians and researchers

SummaryThe unintentional print-out by two different software programmes of the same resuscitation-related events stored on a data card of a Laerdal® FR2-automated external defibrillator (AED), led to the discovery of flaws in the registration of the time line by one of the commercially available Laerdal® software programmes.This observation stresses the need for a continuation of the medical supervision of AED projects, the close co-operation between clinicians and AED manufacturers, the well-controlled introduction of new devices and strict postmarket surveillance programmes.