The part in the article Dolphin linked to had a quote that concerned me.
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Carine Desir, 44, was pronounced dead Friday on a nearly full Haiti-to-New York flight by a pediatrician who said he tried to use the plane's defibrillator on her as she faded, but her pulse was already too weak for it to work.
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Maybe I am reading into it too much, but this is what I know of AEDs. They look for a "shockable" rhythm (usually pulseless v-tavh or v-fib). It will not shock if it is "asystole" (flat line). So, I wonder what the actual rhythm was that it didn't work.
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