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HEARTSTREAM
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Strategic Futures
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Health
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A Portable, Life-Saving Defibrillator

Designing a complicated device that’s affordable and transportable

Client
HEARTSTREAM
PROGRESS
the challenge

Create a highly mobile, easy-to-operate defibrillator.

the outcome

Life-saving devices as ubiquitous as fire extinguishers.

impact

Defibrillators are available in more locations and used more often to stop a cardiac event.

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As many as one-third of the 300,000 annual cardiac arrest fatalities in the US could be avoided if defibrillation was applied within minutes of the cardiac event.

Working with Heartstream, IDEO tested the effectiveness of alternative defibrillator configurations with different users to help develop a highly mobile and easy-to-operate product. Heartstream systematically refined the concept with the goal of making its defibrillators affordable, transportable, and as ubiquitous as fire extinguishers.

(This device is now manufactured by Philips.)

As many as one-third of the 300,000 annual cardiac arrest fatalities in the US could be avoided if defibrillation was applied within minutes of the cardiac event.

Working with Heartstream, IDEO tested the effectiveness of alternative defibrillator configurations with different users to help develop a highly mobile and easy-to-operate product. Heartstream systematically refined the concept with the goal of making its defibrillators affordable, transportable, and as ubiquitous as fire extinguishers.

(This device is now manufactured by Philips.)

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